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Starve   /stɑrv/   Listen
Starve

verb
(past & past part. starved; pres. part. starving)
1.
Be hungry; go without food.  Synonyms: famish, hunger.
2.
Die of food deprivation.  Synonym: famish.  "Many famished in the countryside during the drought"
3.
Deprive of food.  Synonym: famish.
4.
Have a craving, appetite, or great desire for.  Synonyms: crave, hunger, lust, thirst.
5.
Deprive of a necessity and cause suffering.  "The engine was starved of fuel"





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"Starve" Quotes from Famous Books



... fed and sheltered, and little human creeturs like the widow Larkum's there can starve for all the great folks cares. Deary me! it's a terble onjointed sort of world; seems to me I could regilate things better myself. Well, a good afternoon, ...
— Medoline Selwyn's Work • Mrs. J. J. Colter
... pretty women—for what? Here there can be nothing for me but Indians, hard work, privation, and trouble. Yet I could not get here quickly enough. Pshaw! What use to speak of the possibilities of a new country. I cannot deceive myself. It is she. I would walk a thousand miles and starve myself for months just for one glimpse of her sweet face. Knowing this what care I for all the rest. How strange she should ride down to the old sycamore tree yesterday the moment I was there and thinking of her. Evidently she had just returned from her visit. ...
— Betty Zane • Zane Grey
... with a sneer. 'That stock hain't a long life in the bush, I guess. A storekeeper hain't no business on it, nohow—'twould starve him out; so Uncle Zack don't keep it.' And his unpleasant little eyes twinkled again at the idea of such unwonted connection as his father ...
— Cedar Creek - From the Shanty to the Settlement • Elizabeth Hely Walshe
... between England and a combination of foreign powers possessed of stronger ironclads than ours, and that they were able to ram our ships back into port and land an enemy of overpowering force on the Essex coast, it would be sufficient for them to occupy or cut the railways leading from the north, to starve London into submission in ...
— Lives of the Engineers - The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson • Samuel Smiles
... along the best we can for a whole winter, but we nearly starve to death, and then the next spring when we getting a little patch planted Mistress go into Bonham and come back and say we all free ...
— Slave Narratives, Oklahoma - A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From - Interviews with Former Slaves • Various


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