STARVE


Meaning of STARVE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ stɑ:(r)v ]

( starves, starving, starved)

1.

If people starve , they suffer greatly from lack of food which sometimes leads to their death.

A number of the prisoners we saw are starving...

In the 1930s, millions of Ukrainians starved to death or were deported...

Getting food to starving people does nothing to stop the war.

VERB : V , V to n , V-ing

2.

To starve someone means not to give them any food.

He said the only alternative was to starve the people, and he said this could not be allowed to happen...

Judy decided I was starving myself.

VERB : V n , V pron-refl

3.

If a person or thing is starved of something that they need, they are suffering because they are not getting enough of it.

The electricity industry is not the only one to have been starved of investment...

VERB : be V-ed of n

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