'Starve' definitions:

Definition of 'starve'

(from WordNet)
verb
Be hungry; go without food; "Let's eat--I'm starving!" [syn: starve, hunger, famish] [ant: be full]
verb
Die of food deprivation; "The political prisoners starved to death"; "Many famished in the countryside during the drought" [syn: starve, famish]
verb
Deprive of food; "They starved the prisoners" [syn: starve, famish] [ant: feed, give]
verb
Have a craving, appetite, or great desire for [syn: crave, hunger, thirst, starve, lust]
verb
Deprive of a necessity and cause suffering; "he is starving her of love"; "The engine was starved of fuel"

Definition of 'Starve'

From: GCIDE
  • Starve \Starve\, v. t.
  • 1. To destroy with cold. [Eng.] [1913 Webster]
  • From beds of raging fire, to starve in ice Their soft ethereal warmth. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To kill with hunger; as, maliciously to starve a man is, in law, murder. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To distress or subdue by famine; as, to starve a garrison into a surrender. [1913 Webster]
  • Attalus endeavored to starve Italy by stopping their convoy of provisions from Africa. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To destroy by want of any kind; as, to starve plants by depriving them of proper light and air. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. To deprive of force or vigor; to disable. [1913 Webster]
  • The pens of historians, writing thereof, seemed starved for matter in an age so fruitful of memorable actions. --Fuller. [1913 Webster]
  • The powers of their minds are starved by disuse. --Locke. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Starve'

From: GCIDE
  • Starve \Starve\ (st[aum]rv), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Starved (st[aum]rvd); p. pr. & vb. n. Starving.] [OE. sterven to die, AS. steorfan; akin to D. sterven, G. sterben, OHG. sterban, Icel. starf labor, toil.]
  • 1. To die; to perish. [Obs., except in the sense of perishing with cold or hunger.] --Lydgate. [1913 Webster]
  • In hot coals he hath himself raked . . . Thus starved this worthy mighty Hercules. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To perish with hunger; to suffer extreme hunger or want; to be very indigent. [1913 Webster]
  • Sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To perish or die with cold. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
  • Have I seen the naked starve for cold? --Sandys. [1913 Webster]
  • Starving with cold as well as hunger. --W. Irving. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: In this sense, still common in England, but rarely used in the United States. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'starve'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Words containing 'Starve'