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- Dictionarystarve/stɑːv/
verb
- 1. suffer or die or cause to suffer or die from hunger: "she left her animals to starve"
- 2. be freezing cold: archaic, dialect "pull down that window for we are perfectly starving here"
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STARVE definition: 1. to (cause someone to) become very weak or die because there is not enough food to eat: 2. to…. Learn more.
1. a. : to perish from lack of food. b. : to suffer extreme hunger. 2. archaic: to die of cold. b. British: to suffer greatly from cold. 3. : to suffer or perish from deprivation. starved for affection. transitive verb. 1. a. : to kill with hunger. b. : to deprive of nourishment.
to (cause someone to) become very weak or die because there is not enough food to eat: Whole communities starved to death during the long drought. From talking to former prisoners in the camps, an obvious conclusion is that they have been starved. Fewer examples. We can't stand by while millions of people starve.
The verb starve means suffering or death caused by a lack of food, though people also use it as a dramatic way to say they are hungry, as in, "If we don't start cooking dinner now, I think I'll starve." The word starve has origins in the Old English word steorfan, meaning “to die.”
verb (used with object) , starved, starv·ing. to cause to starve; kill, weaken, or reduce by lack of food. to subdue, or force to some condition or action, by hunger: to starve a besieged garrison into a surrender. to cause to suffer for lack of something needed or craved.
STARVE definition: to become sick or die because you do not have enough food, or to make someone sick or die because…. Learn more.
1. verb. If people starve, they suffer greatly from lack of food, which sometimes leads to their death. A number of the prisoners we saw are starving. [VERB] In the 1930s, millions starved to death or were deported. [VERB + to] Getting food to starving people does nothing to stop the war. [VERB -ing]
