(~s, starving, ~d)
1.
If people ~, 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 ~d 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 ~ someone means not to give them any food.
He said the only alternative was to ~ 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 ~d 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 ~d of investment...
VERB: be V-ed of n