ALL meanings of starve
starve
S s - intransitive verb starve have no food 1
- transitive verb starve deny food to 1
- intransitive verb starve be very hungry 1
- intransitive verb starve deprive of sth 1
- verb without object starve to die or perish from lack of food or nourishment. 1
- verb without object starve to be in the process of perishing or suffering severely from hunger. 1
- verb without object starve to suffer from extreme poverty and need. 1
- verb without object starve to feel a strong need or desire: The child was starving for affection. 1
- verb without object starve Chiefly British Dialect. to perish or suffer extremely from cold. 1
- verb without object starve Obsolete. to die. 1
- verb with object starve to cause to starve; kill, weaken, or reduce by lack of food. 1
- verb with object starve to subdue, or force to some condition or action, by hunger: to starve a besieged garrison into a surrender. 1
- verb with object starve to cause to suffer for lack of something needed or craved. 1
- verb with object starve Chiefly British Dialect. to cause to perish, or to suffer extremely, from cold. 1
- verb starve If people starve, they suffer greatly from lack of food which sometimes leads to their death. 0
- verb starve To starve someone means not to give them any food. 0
- verb starve If a person or thing is starved of something that they need, they are suffering because they are not getting enough of it. 0
- verb starve to die or cause to die from lack of food 0
- verb starve to deprive (a person or animal) or (of a person, etc) to be deprived of food 0
- verb starve to be very hungry 0
- verb starve to deprive or be deprived (of something necessary), esp so as to cause suffering or malfunctioning 0
- verb starve to bring (to) a specified condition by starving 0
- verb starve to be or cause to be extremely cold 0
- intransitive verb starve to die from lack of food 0
- intransitive verb starve to suffer or become weak from hunger 0
- intransitive verb starve to be ravenously hungry 0
- intransitive verb starve to suffer great need 0
- intransitive verb starve to suffer and die slowly from any cause, esp. from extreme cold 0
- verb transitive starve to cause to starve by depriving of food 0
- verb transitive starve to force by starvation 0
- verb transitive starve to cause to suffer from a lack or need of something specified 0
- verb transitive starve to cause to die from extreme cold 0