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

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

Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
Wangari Maathai

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
Pearl S. Buck

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
Pearl S. Buck

I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.
Ezra Pound

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.
Benjamin Harrison

I don't go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack.
Vanessa Hudgens

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

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

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

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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