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starve
has definitions from the field of biology
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[ verb ] be hungry; go without food
Examples "Let's eat--I'm starving!" Used in print (Eugene Burdick, "The Invisible Aborigine"...)Every bone and muscle in his body showed , but he did not give the appearance of starving . (Todhunter Ballard, The Night Riders....)We 've been starving and I do n't like to starve '' . We 've been starving and I do n't like to starve '' . (Richard Tiernan, "Land of the Silver Dollar,"...)All , of_course , except the Donner party who were bent_on starving to death . |
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[ verb ] (biology) die of food deprivation
Synonyms Examples "The political prisoners starved to death" "Many famished in the countryside during the drought" Used in print (Wayne D. Overholser, The Killer Marshal....)He had seen a_few nester wagons go through the country , the families almost starving to death , but he had never seen any of them on_foot and as bad off as these two . You 'd have starved to death if you 'd missed both places '' . Related terms |
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[ verb ] deprive of food
Synonyms Examples "They starved the prisoners" Used in print (Harold Rosenberg, "The Trial and Eichmann"...)For almost two months , the defendant and the world heard from individuals escaped from the grave about fathers and mothers , graybeards , adolescents , babies , starved , beaten to death , strangled , machine-gunned , gassed , burned . |
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[ verb ] deprive of a necessity and cause suffering
Examples "he is starving her of love" "The engine was starved of fuel" Related terms |
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