starve

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To die because of lack of food or of not eating.

   “During the Cultural Revolution I was exiled to Xincai County in Henan Province. There, 36 percent of the people starved to death in the early 1960s.”

2. fiil To suffer severely because of lack of food or of not eating.

   “Ah (ſaid the Ape as ſighing vvondrous ſad) / Its an hard caſe, vvhen men of good deſeruing / Muſt either driuen be perforce to ſteruing, / Or asked for their pas by euerie ſquib: […]”

3. fiil To be very hungry.

   “I was starving so I wrote S.O.S. on the desert island using rocks.”

4. fiil To kill or attempt to kill by depriving of food.
5. fiil To make suffer severely by depriving of food.
6. fiil To force a combatant to submit or surrender by depriving of food, as in a targeted siege.

   “If they refuse to surrender the garrison, we'll just starve them out.”

7. fiil To force a population center to submit or surrender by depriving of food, as in sieges in international armed conflicts.

   “Some historians have since classified the Siege of Leningrad as a genocide due to the intentional destruction of the city and the systematic starvation of its civilian population.”

8. fiil To deprive of nourishment or of some vital component.

   “The uncaring parents starved the child of love.”

9. fiil To deteriorate for want of any essential thing.
10. fiil To kill with cold; to (cause to) die from cold.

    “I was half starved waiting out in that wind.”

11. fiil To die; in later use especially to die slowly, waste away.

    “Seuen moneths he ſo her kept in bitter ſmart, / Becauſe his ſinfull luſt ſhe would not ſerue, / Vntill ſuch time as noble Britomart / Releaſed her, that elſe was like to ſterue / Through cruell knife that her deare heart did kerue.”