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Starve (Verb)

Be hungry; go without food; "Let's eat--I'm starving!".

Verbs of eating and drinking.

The hikers began to starve after days without a reliable food source in the wilderness.
She felt so weak from fasting for weeks that she was starting to think she would starve to death.
Carrying only nuts, the traveler feared he would starve on his long desert journey.
After skipping meals for two days, he began to starve and craved something to eat.
The refugee would starve without donations of food and other aid.

Have a craving, appetite, or great desire for.

Verbs of eating and drinking.

Deprive of food; "They starved the prisoners".

Verbs of eating and drinking.

The dictator's regime starved entire villages during the civil war.
They deliberately starved the animal to weaken its immune system before the experiment.
The malnutrition hotline reported a rise in cases where children were being starved by their negligent caregivers.
During the famine, many families had to rely on the charitable donations or risk being starved.
Nutritionists warn about the dangers of extreme diets that starve the body of essential nutrients.