Starve
11starve — 01. Many people in North Korea [starved] to death during the famine there. 02. A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it [starves] to death. 03. Apparently, if an insect chews on gum, its jaws will stick together, and it will… …
12starve — verb (I, T) 1 to suffer or die because you do not have enough to eat, or to make someone else do this: Thousands of people will starve if food doesn t reach the stricken city. | starve sth: The dog looked like it had been starved. | starve to… …
13starve — verb ADVERB ▪ slowly ▪ literally ▪ She refused food and literally starved herself to death. VERB + STARVE ▪ leave sb to ▪ …
14starve */ — UK [stɑː(r)v] / US [stɑrv] verb Word forms starve : present tense I/you/we/they starve he/she/it starves present participle starving past tense starved past participle starved a) [intransitive] to suffer or to die because there is not enough food …
15starve — [c]/stav / (say stahv) verb (starved, starving) –verb (i) 1. to die or perish from hunger. 2. to be in process of perishing, or to suffer severely, from hunger. 3. Colloquial to be hungry. 4. to suffer from extreme poverty and need. 5. Obsolete… …
16starve — [[t]stɑ͟ː(r)v[/t]] starves, starving, starved 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... [V to n] In the 1930s, millions of Ukrainians… …
17starve — /stahrv/, v., starved, starving. v.i. 1. to die or perish from lack of food or nourishment. 2. to be in the process of perishing or suffering severely from hunger. 3. to suffer from extreme poverty and need. 4. to feel a strong need or desire:… …
18starve — [OE] Starve means etymologically ‘be stiff’ – it goes back to a prehistoric Germanic base *star , *ster ‘be stiff’, which also produced English starch, stare, etc. The ‘stiffness’ of a corpse led to its use for ‘die’ – a meaning which it retains… …
19starve — v 1. die, perish, starve to death, Archaic. famish. 2. go hungry, go without food, fast, suffer from hunger, hunger, be hungry, be famished, crave food, be ravenous, Inf. lick one s chops. 3.Usu. starve for want, hunger for, long for, pine for,… …
20starve — [OE] Starve means etymologically ‘be stiff’ – it goes back to a prehistoric Germanic base *star , *ster ‘be stiff’, which also produced English starch, stare, etc. The ‘stiffness’ of a corpse led to its use for ‘die’ – a meaning which it retains… …
