Definition of Starve

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Starve

To die; to perish.

To perish with hunger; to suffer extreme hunger or want; to be very indigent.

To perish or die with cold.

To destroy with cold.

To kill with hunger; as, maliciously to starve a man is, in law, murder.

To distress or subdue by famine; as, to starvea garrison into a surrender.

To destroy by want of any kind; as, to starve plans by depriving them of proper light and air.

To deprive of force or vigor; to disable.

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Starve Quotations

I would rather die in freedom on my way back home than starve to death here.
Morning Star

Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know? And our own hogs, and our own cows and stuff, you know.
James E. Jones

Anorexia, you starve yourself. Bulimia, you binge and purge. You eat huge amounts of food until you're sick and then you throw up. And anorexia, you just deny yourself. It's about control.
Tracey Gold

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
Margaret Thatcher

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
Charles Caleb Colton

Starve Translations

starve in French is affament, affamez, affamons, affamer
starve in German is hungere, hungern, verhungern
starve in Spanish is morir de hambre


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