'Starve' definitions:
Definition of 'starve'
From: WordNet
verb
verb
Die of food deprivation; "The political prisoners starved to death"; "Many famished in the countryside during the drought" [syn: starve, famish]
verb
verb
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
- annihilate,
- asphyxiate,
- be in want,
- be killed,
- be pinched,
- be poor,
- be ravenous,
- begrudge,
- bereave of life,
- carry away,
- carry off,
- chloroform,
- choke,
- cut down,
- cut off,
- deprive of life,
- destroy,
- dispatch,
- dispose of,
- do away with,
- do for,
- do to death,
- drown,
- end,
- execute,
- exterminate,
- eye hungrily,
- famish,
- feel hungry,
- finish,
- finish off,
- go on welfare,
- grudge,
- have a tapeworm,
- hunger,
- hunger for,
- immolate,
- kill,
- lack,
- launch into eternity,
- liquidate,
- live upon nothing,
- lynch,
- make away with,
- martyr,
- martyrize,
- need,
- OD,
- pinch,
- pinch pennies,
- poison,
- purge,
- put away,
- put down,
- put to death,
- put to sleep,
- raven,
- remove from life,
- sacrifice,
- scamp,
- scant,
- screw,
- scrimp,
- skimp,
- slay,
- smother,
- stint,
- strangle,
- suffocate,
- take life,
- take off,
- thirst,
- thirst for,
- want