meaning of starve
1. To die; to perish.
2. To perish with hunger; to suffer extreme hunger or want; to be very indigent.
3. To perish or die with cold.
4. To destroy with cold.
5. To kill with hunger; as, maliciously to starve a man is, in law, murder.
6. To distress or subdue by famine; as, to starvea garrison into a surrender.
7. To destroy by want of any kind; as, to starve plans by depriving them of proper light and air.
8. To deprive of force or vigor; to disable.
9. die of food deprivation; "The political prisoners starved to death"; "Many famished in the countryside during the
">drought"
Related Words
starve | starved | starved aster | starvedly | starveling |
