verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bleed/freeze/burn/starve to death
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Thousands of people are starving to death.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
out
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The Lisbon Government tried to avoid bloodshed by starving out the rebels and blockading the island.
■ NOUN
cash
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Local housing authorities have been starved of cash for a number of years by the Government.
death
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The entire population had starved to death .
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A headline, about anorexia nervosa, starving yourself to death .
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Perhaps I would run away, or starve myself to death .
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It is, of course, less honest than Spencer and denies that anyone will starve to death .
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Recalcitrants were chained, starved and beaten to death .
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Would you eat that, unless you were starving to death in a concentration camp? 2.
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In the midst of plenty, they were slowly starving to death .
oxygen
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Sealing food in an airtight jar starves the bacteria of oxygen and they are unable to reproduce.
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Medical theorists suggest that these experiences are actually hallucinations caused by the brain's mood-controlling limbic system being starved of oxygen .
people
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On the other hand, we can not stand idly by while people starve in the streets.
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This morning, g00 million people awoke starving .
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Half our people starving and the other half standing around a roulette wheel.
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Of the 800 million people who are starving today, 175 million are children aged under five.
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They fear that if the Food Bank goes under, people will starve .
submission
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The combined forces of Rufus and Warenne starved Pevensey into submission .
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It proposes to starve the people into submission by depriving them of food and necessities of life....
■ VERB
feed
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We failed to feed a starving people, leaving millions to die or emigrate.
leave
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But the front line runs across Katanga, and the war cut people off from their fields, leaving them to starve .
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Instead, the rancher left the horses to starve .
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He then went off, leaving his rival to starve to death.
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Planting a bomb means saving the children that Madreidetic was leaving to starve .
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She says it make her mad that they should be locked away and left to starve .
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Perhaps he's going to leave me to starve .
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The top breeder who left her sheep to starve .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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In 1884, the crew of Young's ship nearly starved when they were blown off course.
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The prisoners were taken out into the desert and left to starve .
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The world cannot stand by and watch while these people starve .
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Unless these people get food in the next two weeks they will starve to death.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And the ban will stay in place as long as the coastal strip is starved of much needed rain.
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Everyone around us was starving too.
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I was away in the Army and always starved for news for home.
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Reason that is disengaged and tightly regulated would starve other human faculties, they believed.
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The entire population had starved to death.