Definition of starve in English:

starve

verb stɑːvstɑrv

1Suffer or die or cause to suffer or die from hunger.
no object she left her animals to starve
她让她的动物挨饿。
seven million starved to death
饿死的有七百万人。
with object for a while she had considered starving herself
有一段时间她曾想饿死自己。
Example sentencesExamples
- Letters were piled up behind the door, but no food or drink was found in the flat and it is feared she may have starved to death after becoming too afraid to go outside.
- Police believe they starved to death in Dutroux's dungeon when he went to jail for four months in December, 1995, for stealing a car.
- On that same day, Anna learned that, after being sent to Siberia by the Soviets, her parents had starved to death.
- To date, three of Jasmuheen's followers have starved to death.
- She starved to death last year beside her mother's corpse in a Doncaster flat while the case workers who should have been protecting her found other things to do.
- While some were executed, others, malnourished and starving, were forced to carry out labour beyond their physical capabilities.
- This explains why a car crash is more likely to be considered an event - and consequently to feature in the news - than the ongoing plight of people starving in Sudan.
- In 1869, a 12-year-old called Sarah Jacob starved to death in a Welsh farmhouse, under the eye of doctors and nurses who were watching her around the clock.
- His brother, meanwhile, had starved to death, trapped in his wheelchair in a mountain of trash and accessible only via a network of tunnels.
- There is no cause to regret the passing of that system - millions of peasants starved to death - and those who now point to the absence of school fees in that period are at any rate one-sided.
- They would not give me a pinch of flour even if I starved to death.
- Vets estimated the dog, which had ripped the house apart in its frantic search for food, starved to death over eight weeks.
- A prisoner has starved to death after fasting for seven months, becoming the 48th person to die in hunger strikes protesting against changes to Turkey's prison system.
- ‘But he had a beautiful nature and although he had nearly starved to death we felt he was recoverable,’ Ms Shields said.
- However by last weekend the inspectors had ruled out disease or environmental causes, heightening the speculation that the cattle starved to death over the long winter season.
- My great-grandfather and his 26 year old daughter had been executed; his 34 year old son had frozen and starved to death in the Arctic gold mines of Kolyma.
- When the liberators arrived they found more than 20,000 naked corpses of prisoners, who had starved to death, lying unburied on open ground.
- Of course, some Africans are starving and many are chronically poor, sick and hungry.
- Firefighters were called in after fears grew that the black cats - who are yet to open their eyes - might have starved to death.
- Otherwise, we'd all have frozen and starved to death.
Synonyms
dying of hunger, dying from lack of food, faint from lack of food, deprived of food, undernourished, malnourished, starved, half-starved, unfed
very hungry, ravenous, famished, empty, hollow
fasting
(be starving), be hungry
informal could eat a horse
1. 1.1be starving" or "starvedinformal Feel very hungry.
  I don't know about you, but I'm starving
  我不知道你怎么样，但是我是饿坏了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  And though I was starving a few minutes ago, I was not hungry anymore.
  He had not been starving; he had only been hungry.
  Aid agencies have rightly pointed out that many of the randomly dropped packages would have got lost, many would be destroyed on impact, and many eaten by people who were not starving.
  It was getting near to midday and I was starving hungry.
  I was ravenously starving all the time and I have nothing but admiration for people who manage this lifestyle.
  Everyone was famished, desperate and starving.
  She wished that when she opened her eyes, there would be a plate of steaming waffles next to her… because she was ravenously starving.
  After said party, back at the parents, Andy got really stroppy with me because I wasn't hungry even though he was starving.
  She was starving, the empty rumbling in her stomach was witness to that, and she hurt so bad she felt like vomiting.
  Synonyms
  ravenous, empty, hollow, faint from hunger
2. 1.2starve someone out" or "intowith object Force someone out of (a place) or into (a specified state) by starvation.
  以饥饿迫使就范，以饥饿强迫
  the Royalists were starved out after eleven days
  在经过11天以后，由于饥饿保皇党人被迫就范。
  German U-boats hoping to starve Britain into submission
  希望以饥饿来迫使英国屈服的德国潜艇。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Instead, the state tried to starve us out for our agricultural unorthodoxy, then they charged us with starvation.
  If the accused would neither submit to trial nor abjure the realm after 40 days, he was starved into submission.
  The Romans, in their turn, took to burning fields themselves, trying to starve Hannibal out, trying to weary his men.
  It is not going beyond the limits of prudent statement to say that at any rate it will take a long time to starve us out.
  Loggers should not drive indigenous cultures from the rainforest by ‘starving them out.’
  Again, we could have blockaded and starved them out but that was not necessary.
  Sparta's victory at Aegospotami and its control of the Hellespont starved Athens into surrender in April 404.
  What if Germany's U-boats had won the Battle of the Atlantic and starved Britain into submission?
  Agha's troops had the Taliban forces surrounded and were intending to starve them into surrender.
  Battling granny Dot Kelly, from Farnworth, today said that British Coal tried to ‘starve her out’ of her sit-in 1,800 ft. below ground at closure threatened Parkside pit.
  ‘Moral issues are our bread and butter and we will not be starved out of this activity by such misguided and poorly grounded legislation,’ said Father Norden.
  The policy appears to be to ignore these people, starve them out, deny them healthcare and they will either die or go away.
  During the Great Siege of 1779-83, the garrison under General Elliott resisted all attempts to bombard or starve them out.
  Many castles were very well defended and for some attacking armies, the only way to defeat them was to surround them and starve them out.
  In 1896, the British had tried to quell Ndebele resistance in the Matopos by starving them out; Smith's army and police had tried something similar and for the same reasons.
  ‘We will root them out and starve them out,’ Rumsfeld said, just before closing a news conference with a ringing declaration: ‘We are determined not to be terrorized.’
  There is some rumor of Federal supporters trying to block the rail lines into Manassas Junction and starving us out, but so far all it has been is rumor.
  They torched all buildings except the food stores so that the Romans could not say they were starved out.
  But clearly the Home Office is determined that, if it can't get asylum seekers out by the legal route, it will starve them out instead.
  More often than not we went hungry anyway, but then they attempted to starve us out.
3. 1.3usually be starved of" or US "forwith object Deprive of something necessary.
  the arts are being starved of funds
  文科正面临资金紧缺。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Public infrastructure is starved of funds to justify Private Public Partnerships.
  They were being starved of funds at a time when the private health system was being built up by the government.
  I was starved for conversation and thrilled to have the company.
  He has been starved of funds to rebuild the team and undermined by claims that the club's chief executive, Chris Robinson, and other directors might prefer another man in charge.
  The cost of this service is a dreadful waste of money which would have been better spent (as GPs advised) on local out-of-hours services which have been starved of funds while this system, driven by edict from London, was put in place.
  But this is endemic, unfortunately, we're in a situation where council houses have been starved of funds for years.
  Mullan speaks about his children with affection, something he was starved of by his own father, Charles.
  The nuclear submarine lobby, known in the Navy as the ‘Black Mafia’, went ruthlessly for Trident, even though it might mean that the rest of the Navy was starved of funds.
  University chiefs have warned that more than 100 arts and science departments are at risk of closure after being starved of research funds, writes Gareth Walsh.
  Not a duff track among them, honestly, and the thing didn't even make it past 20 minutes, so naturally I was starved for more.
  Dentistry is perhaps an even better example - only when the NHS dentistry system was starved of funds did we see a major change to private treatment and insurance - and even there you actually had to pay to get most NHS treatment anyway.
  Now a bitter row is set to develop over claims that Hull Council is deliberately being starved of funds by Mr Prescott to punish the council's new Liberal Democrat rulers.
  While the commission holds more meetings about capturing the narrative of Scottish life (whatever that means), artists are being starved of funds.
  There is no disagreement that councils have been starved of funds by successive governments.
  Overall, the performance may be slowly improving - but the improvements are being made by the people who deliver the services on the front line and they are now being starved of funds.
  But it was the Indian scholars themselves making the fuss, expressing concern that research institutes back in Bharat were and are being starved of much-needed funds.
  The fact is that, even as we engage in this desperate struggle to conserve a dying language, other parts of our culture, affecting far more people, are being starved of funds.
  He argued that Mayo General Hospital was recognised by the Dept of Health and Children as the most efficient hospital in Europe and yet it was being starved of funds.
  Wavell believed that he was being starved of the necessary reinforcements which he believed he needed and he resigned in February 1942.
  The Nationals argue that regional universities would be starved of funds to provide services, and want the Government to give grants to ensure that sports or medical services don't have to be shut down.
2dialect, archaic no object Be freezing cold.
〈古〉处于严寒之中
pull down that window for we are perfectly starving here
请把那窗户拉下来，我们这里冷极了。
Example sentencesExamples
- [He'll] be obleeged to bring the shakedown near the fire..to keep her from starving with the cold.

Phrases

starve the beast

Limit or reduce government expenditure by cutting taxes.
conservatives like to say their strategy of tax cuts all the time is designed to starve the beast
Example sentencesExamples
- A real strategy of starving the beast is not politically feasible in today's world or anytime soon.
- Most of our politicians cannot discipline themselves to spend other peoples' money wisely. Starve the beast!
- This is the kind of stuff that happens in the real world when "starve the beast" becomes the mantra of a powerful claque.
- In the next breath, sounding like a "starve the beast" conservative, she said she hoped the price of oil, the principal variable of state revenue, would not rise too much.
- The other big piece of that strategy is the use of tax cuts to 'starve the beast.'

Origin

Old English steorfan 'to die', of Germanic origin, probably from a base meaning 'be rigid' (compare with stare); related to Dutch sterven and German sterben.

In Anglo-Saxon times starve simply meant ‘to die’, especially a lingering death from hunger, cold, disease, or grief. People continued to use the word in this way for many centuries, and in northern English dialect starve can still mean ‘to die of cold’. The origin of the word is probably an ancient Germanic base that meant ‘to be rigid’. This rigid/dead connection is preserved in the modern slang use of stiff to refer to a dead body.

Rhymes

Algarve, calve, carve, grave, Graves, halve, Slav, suave, Zouave

Definition of starve in US English:

starve

verbstärvstɑrv

[no object]

1(of a person or animal) suffer severely or die from hunger.
（人，动物）挨饿；饿死
she left her animals to starve
她让她的动物挨饿。
seven million starved to death
饿死的有七百万人。
Example sentencesExamples
- My great-grandfather and his 26 year old daughter had been executed; his 34 year old son had frozen and starved to death in the Arctic gold mines of Kolyma.
- While some were executed, others, malnourished and starving, were forced to carry out labour beyond their physical capabilities.
- On that same day, Anna learned that, after being sent to Siberia by the Soviets, her parents had starved to death.
- In 1869, a 12-year-old called Sarah Jacob starved to death in a Welsh farmhouse, under the eye of doctors and nurses who were watching her around the clock.
- Otherwise, we'd all have frozen and starved to death.
- However by last weekend the inspectors had ruled out disease or environmental causes, heightening the speculation that the cattle starved to death over the long winter season.
- ‘But he had a beautiful nature and although he had nearly starved to death we felt he was recoverable,’ Ms Shields said.
- A prisoner has starved to death after fasting for seven months, becoming the 48th person to die in hunger strikes protesting against changes to Turkey's prison system.
- This explains why a car crash is more likely to be considered an event - and consequently to feature in the news - than the ongoing plight of people starving in Sudan.
- Police believe they starved to death in Dutroux's dungeon when he went to jail for four months in December, 1995, for stealing a car.
- There is no cause to regret the passing of that system - millions of peasants starved to death - and those who now point to the absence of school fees in that period are at any rate one-sided.
- They would not give me a pinch of flour even if I starved to death.
- When the liberators arrived they found more than 20,000 naked corpses of prisoners, who had starved to death, lying unburied on open ground.
- His brother, meanwhile, had starved to death, trapped in his wheelchair in a mountain of trash and accessible only via a network of tunnels.
- Firefighters were called in after fears grew that the black cats - who are yet to open their eyes - might have starved to death.
- To date, three of Jasmuheen's followers have starved to death.
- Vets estimated the dog, which had ripped the house apart in its frantic search for food, starved to death over eight weeks.
- Letters were piled up behind the door, but no food or drink was found in the flat and it is feared she may have starved to death after becoming too afraid to go outside.
- Of course, some Africans are starving and many are chronically poor, sick and hungry.
- She starved to death last year beside her mother's corpse in a Doncaster flat while the case workers who should have been protecting her found other things to do.
Synonyms
dying of hunger, dying from lack of food, faint from lack of food, deprived of food, undernourished, malnourished, starved, half-starved, unfed
1. 1.1with object Cause (a person or animal) to suffer severely or die from hunger.
  （人，动物）挨饿；饿死
  for a while she had considered starving herself
  有一段时间她曾想饿死自己。
  Example sentencesExamples
  He's starved them of food and equipment, and he brutally purges their officers with an almost banal regularity.
  I cannot trust a man who will starve children to death and think nothing of it.
  The primary objective of this campaign is to starve terrorists of essential funding and technical support…
  But what her parents say is we can't stand by as a loving mom and dad and watch her be starved or dehydrated to death.
  He was known as a skilful printer and darkroom operative, even though his sight was severely damaged after he was starved by his captors in the Second World War.
  Yet it has emerged as an all-too-real example of how a dictator enriches himself and his family while starving his people.
  How many children were starved, prisoners tortured, families separated in the time it took for her to go from helpless baby to mother's helper?
  But we could starve the beast to death by ceasing to provide its main source of food: our money.
  And people were getting mad at her because they thought she was starving the child, and yet she was eating more than she had ever eaten in her life.
  For example, if you starved a dog and chained it in the back yard for 6 months, you would be sentenced to an outdoor cage with as little food as you gave the dog.
  There's still a person there and they're starving her.
  Gulag prisoners were systemically starved, beaten, and forced to labor in sub-zero weather.
  Since you, his loving owner, have the power to either feed or starve your pet, your dog looks to you as its only supplier of food.
  Sure, you deal crack on the side, you beat your wife, you starve your kids, but you're straight and you go to church, so we're here to save you.
  If it is wrong to whip a dog or starve a horse or bait bears for sport or grossly abuse farm animals, it is wrong for all people in every place.
  Then we have the so called pet lovers who starve the family pet dog till his skeletal bone structure protrudes through its limp flesh.
  It sounds, through the distribution of land and the distribution of food, like the government is trying to hold on to control and starve its enemies into submission.
  Deliberately starving her would be a terrible thing.
  Some see another step towards the triumph of euthanasia - they stop at the idea of someone being starved against the wishes of her parents, and there's not another fact that matters.
  This is a regime that starves its own people so that it can do these things.
2. 1.2be starving" or "starvedinformal Feel very hungry.
  I don't know about you, but I'm starving
  我不知道你怎么样，但是我是饿坏了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  It was getting near to midday and I was starving hungry.
  Everyone was famished, desperate and starving.
  She wished that when she opened her eyes, there would be a plate of steaming waffles next to her… because she was ravenously starving.
  She was starving, the empty rumbling in her stomach was witness to that, and she hurt so bad she felt like vomiting.
  He had not been starving; he had only been hungry.
  I was ravenously starving all the time and I have nothing but admiration for people who manage this lifestyle.
  After said party, back at the parents, Andy got really stroppy with me because I wasn't hungry even though he was starving.
  Aid agencies have rightly pointed out that many of the randomly dropped packages would have got lost, many would be destroyed on impact, and many eaten by people who were not starving.
  And though I was starving a few minutes ago, I was not hungry anymore.
  Synonyms
  ravenous, empty, hollow, faint from hunger
3. 1.3starve someone out" or "into Force someone out of a place or into a specified state by stopping supplies of food.
  以饥饿迫使就范，以饥饿强迫
  the Royalists were starved out after eleven days
  在经过11天以后，由于饥饿保皇党人被迫就范。
  German U-boats hoping to starve Britain into submission
  希望以饥饿来迫使英国屈服的德国潜艇。
  Example sentencesExamples
  What if Germany's U-boats had won the Battle of the Atlantic and starved Britain into submission?
  Loggers should not drive indigenous cultures from the rainforest by ‘starving them out.’
  Again, we could have blockaded and starved them out but that was not necessary.
  If the accused would neither submit to trial nor abjure the realm after 40 days, he was starved into submission.
  In 1896, the British had tried to quell Ndebele resistance in the Matopos by starving them out; Smith's army and police had tried something similar and for the same reasons.
  There is some rumor of Federal supporters trying to block the rail lines into Manassas Junction and starving us out, but so far all it has been is rumor.
  More often than not we went hungry anyway, but then they attempted to starve us out.
  It is not going beyond the limits of prudent statement to say that at any rate it will take a long time to starve us out.
  Instead, the state tried to starve us out for our agricultural unorthodoxy, then they charged us with starvation.
  The policy appears to be to ignore these people, starve them out, deny them healthcare and they will either die or go away.
  Battling granny Dot Kelly, from Farnworth, today said that British Coal tried to ‘starve her out’ of her sit-in 1,800 ft. below ground at closure threatened Parkside pit.
  Agha's troops had the Taliban forces surrounded and were intending to starve them into surrender.
  Many castles were very well defended and for some attacking armies, the only way to defeat them was to surround them and starve them out.
  They torched all buildings except the food stores so that the Romans could not say they were starved out.
  Sparta's victory at Aegospotami and its control of the Hellespont starved Athens into surrender in April 404.
  The Romans, in their turn, took to burning fields themselves, trying to starve Hannibal out, trying to weary his men.
  During the Great Siege of 1779-83, the garrison under General Elliott resisted all attempts to bombard or starve them out.
  ‘Moral issues are our bread and butter and we will not be starved out of this activity by such misguided and poorly grounded legislation,’ said Father Norden.
  ‘We will root them out and starve them out,’ Rumsfeld said, just before closing a news conference with a ringing declaration: ‘We are determined not to be terrorized.’
  But clearly the Home Office is determined that, if it can't get asylum seekers out by the legal route, it will starve them out instead.
4. 1.4usually be starved of" or "forwith object Deprive of something necessary.
  the arts are being starved of funds
  文科正面临资金紧缺。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The fact is that, even as we engage in this desperate struggle to conserve a dying language, other parts of our culture, affecting far more people, are being starved of funds.
  Overall, the performance may be slowly improving - but the improvements are being made by the people who deliver the services on the front line and they are now being starved of funds.
  They were being starved of funds at a time when the private health system was being built up by the government.
  He argued that Mayo General Hospital was recognised by the Dept of Health and Children as the most efficient hospital in Europe and yet it was being starved of funds.
  Mullan speaks about his children with affection, something he was starved of by his own father, Charles.
  But it was the Indian scholars themselves making the fuss, expressing concern that research institutes back in Bharat were and are being starved of much-needed funds.
  Wavell believed that he was being starved of the necessary reinforcements which he believed he needed and he resigned in February 1942.
  Public infrastructure is starved of funds to justify Private Public Partnerships.
  There is no disagreement that councils have been starved of funds by successive governments.
  University chiefs have warned that more than 100 arts and science departments are at risk of closure after being starved of research funds, writes Gareth Walsh.
  Not a duff track among them, honestly, and the thing didn't even make it past 20 minutes, so naturally I was starved for more.
  But this is endemic, unfortunately, we're in a situation where council houses have been starved of funds for years.
  The cost of this service is a dreadful waste of money which would have been better spent (as GPs advised) on local out-of-hours services which have been starved of funds while this system, driven by edict from London, was put in place.
  The nuclear submarine lobby, known in the Navy as the ‘Black Mafia’, went ruthlessly for Trident, even though it might mean that the rest of the Navy was starved of funds.
  Now a bitter row is set to develop over claims that Hull Council is deliberately being starved of funds by Mr Prescott to punish the council's new Liberal Democrat rulers.
  He has been starved of funds to rebuild the team and undermined by claims that the club's chief executive, Chris Robinson, and other directors might prefer another man in charge.
  Dentistry is perhaps an even better example - only when the NHS dentistry system was starved of funds did we see a major change to private treatment and insurance - and even there you actually had to pay to get most NHS treatment anyway.
  The Nationals argue that regional universities would be starved of funds to provide services, and want the Government to give grants to ensure that sports or medical services don't have to be shut down.
  I was starved for conversation and thrilled to have the company.
  While the commission holds more meetings about capturing the narrative of Scottish life (whatever that means), artists are being starved of funds.
2dialect, archaic Be freezing cold.
〈古〉处于严寒之中
pull down that window for we are perfectly starving here
请把那窗户拉下来，我们这里冷极了。
Example sentencesExamples
- [He'll] be obleeged to bring the shakedown near the fire..to keep her from starving with the cold.

Phrases

starve the beast

Limit or reduce government expenditures by cutting taxes.
conservatives like to say their strategy of tax cuts all the time is designed to starve the beast
Example sentencesExamples
- A real strategy of starving the beast is not politically feasible in today's world or anytime soon.
- In the next breath, sounding like a "starve the beast" conservative, she said she hoped the price of oil, the principal variable of state revenue, would not rise too much.
- Most of our politicians cannot discipline themselves to spend other peoples' money wisely. Starve the beast!
- The other big piece of that strategy is the use of tax cuts to 'starve the beast.'
- This is the kind of stuff that happens in the real world when "starve the beast" becomes the mantra of a powerful claque.

Origin

Old English steorfan ‘to die’, of Germanic origin, probably from a base meaning ‘be rigid’ (compare with stare); related to Dutch sterven and German sterben.

词汇	starve
释义	Definition of starve in English: starve verb stɑːvstɑrv 1Suffer or die or cause to suffer or die from hunger. no object she left her animals to starve 她让她的动物挨饿。 seven million starved to death 饿死的有七百万人。 with object for a while she had considered starving herself 有一段时间她曾想饿死自己。 Example sentencesExamples Letters were piled up behind the door, but no food or drink was found in the flat and it is feared she may have starved to death after becoming too afraid to go outside. Police believe they starved to death in Dutroux's dungeon when he went to jail for four months in December, 1995, for stealing a car. On that same day, Anna learned that, after being sent to Siberia by the Soviets, her parents had starved to death. To date, three of Jasmuheen's followers have starved to death. She starved to death last year beside her mother's corpse in a Doncaster flat while the case workers who should have been protecting her found other things to do. While some were executed, others, malnourished and starving, were forced to carry out labour beyond their physical capabilities. This explains why a car crash is more likely to be considered an event - and consequently to feature in the news - than the ongoing plight of people starving in Sudan. In 1869, a 12-year-old called Sarah Jacob starved to death in a Welsh farmhouse, under the eye of doctors and nurses who were watching her around the clock. His brother, meanwhile, had starved to death, trapped in his wheelchair in a mountain of trash and accessible only via a network of tunnels. There is no cause to regret the passing of that system - millions of peasants starved to death - and those who now point to the absence of school fees in that period are at any rate one-sided. They would not give me a pinch of flour even if I starved to death. Vets estimated the dog, which had ripped the house apart in its frantic search for food, starved to death over eight weeks. A prisoner has starved to death after fasting for seven months, becoming the 48th person to die in hunger strikes protesting against changes to Turkey's prison system. ‘But he had a beautiful nature and although he had nearly starved to death we felt he was recoverable,’ Ms Shields said. However by last weekend the inspectors had ruled out disease or environmental causes, heightening the speculation that the cattle starved to death over the long winter season. My great-grandfather and his 26 year old daughter had been executed; his 34 year old son had frozen and starved to death in the Arctic gold mines of Kolyma. When the liberators arrived they found more than 20,000 naked corpses of prisoners, who had starved to death, lying unburied on open ground. Of course, some Africans are starving and many are chronically poor, sick and hungry. Firefighters were called in after fears grew that the black cats - who are yet to open their eyes - might have starved to death. Otherwise, we'd all have frozen and starved to death. Synonyms dying of hunger, dying from lack of food, faint from lack of food, deprived of food, undernourished, malnourished, starved, half-starved, unfed very hungry, ravenous, famished, empty, hollow fasting (be starving), be hungry informal could eat a horse 1.1be starving" or "starvedinformal Feel very hungry. I don't know about you, but I'm starving 我不知道你怎么样，但是我是饿坏了。 Example sentencesExamples And though I was starving a few minutes ago, I was not hungry anymore. He had not been starving; he had only been hungry. Aid agencies have rightly pointed out that many of the randomly dropped packages would have got lost, many would be destroyed on impact, and many eaten by people who were not starving. It was getting near to midday and I was starving hungry. I was ravenously starving all the time and I have nothing but admiration for people who manage this lifestyle. Everyone was famished, desperate and starving. She wished that when she opened her eyes, there would be a plate of steaming waffles next to her… because she was ravenously starving. After said party, back at the parents, Andy got really stroppy with me because I wasn't hungry even though he was starving. She was starving, the empty rumbling in her stomach was witness to that, and she hurt so bad she felt like vomiting. Synonyms ravenous, empty, hollow, faint from hunger 1.2starve someone out" or "intowith object Force someone out of (a place) or into (a specified state) by starvation. 以饥饿迫使就范，以饥饿强迫 the Royalists were starved out after eleven days 在经过11天以后，由于饥饿保皇党人被迫就范。 German U-boats hoping to starve Britain into submission 希望以饥饿来迫使英国屈服的德国潜艇。 Example sentencesExamples Instead, the state tried to starve us out for our agricultural unorthodoxy, then they charged us with starvation. If the accused would neither submit to trial nor abjure the realm after 40 days, he was starved into submission. The Romans, in their turn, took to burning fields themselves, trying to starve Hannibal out, trying to weary his men. It is not going beyond the limits of prudent statement to say that at any rate it will take a long time to starve us out. Loggers should not drive indigenous cultures from the rainforest by ‘starving them out.’ Again, we could have blockaded and starved them out but that was not necessary. Sparta's victory at Aegospotami and its control of the Hellespont starved Athens into surrender in April 404. What if Germany's U-boats had won the Battle of the Atlantic and starved Britain into submission? Agha's troops had the Taliban forces surrounded and were intending to starve them into surrender. Battling granny Dot Kelly, from Farnworth, today said that British Coal tried to ‘starve her out’ of her sit-in 1,800 ft. below ground at closure threatened Parkside pit. ‘Moral issues are our bread and butter and we will not be starved out of this activity by such misguided and poorly grounded legislation,’ said Father Norden. The policy appears to be to ignore these people, starve them out, deny them healthcare and they will either die or go away. During the Great Siege of 1779-83, the garrison under General Elliott resisted all attempts to bombard or starve them out. Many castles were very well defended and for some attacking armies, the only way to defeat them was to surround them and starve them out. In 1896, the British had tried to quell Ndebele resistance in the Matopos by starving them out; Smith's army and police had tried something similar and for the same reasons. ‘We will root them out and starve them out,’ Rumsfeld said, just before closing a news conference with a ringing declaration: ‘We are determined not to be terrorized.’ There is some rumor of Federal supporters trying to block the rail lines into Manassas Junction and starving us out, but so far all it has been is rumor. They torched all buildings except the food stores so that the Romans could not say they were starved out. But clearly the Home Office is determined that, if it can't get asylum seekers out by the legal route, it will starve them out instead. More often than not we went hungry anyway, but then they attempted to starve us out. 1.3usually be starved of" or US "forwith object Deprive of something necessary. the arts are being starved of funds 文科正面临资金紧缺。 Example sentencesExamples Public infrastructure is starved of funds to justify Private Public Partnerships. They were being starved of funds at a time when the private health system was being built up by the government. I was starved for conversation and thrilled to have the company. He has been starved of funds to rebuild the team and undermined by claims that the club's chief executive, Chris Robinson, and other directors might prefer another man in charge. The cost of this service is a dreadful waste of money which would have been better spent (as GPs advised) on local out-of-hours services which have been starved of funds while this system, driven by edict from London, was put in place. But this is endemic, unfortunately, we're in a situation where council houses have been starved of funds for years. Mullan speaks about his children with affection, something he was starved of by his own father, Charles. The nuclear submarine lobby, known in the Navy as the ‘Black Mafia’, went ruthlessly for Trident, even though it might mean that the rest of the Navy was starved of funds. University chiefs have warned that more than 100 arts and science departments are at risk of closure after being starved of research funds, writes Gareth Walsh. Not a duff track among them, honestly, and the thing didn't even make it past 20 minutes, so naturally I was starved for more. Dentistry is perhaps an even better example - only when the NHS dentistry system was starved of funds did we see a major change to private treatment and insurance - and even there you actually had to pay to get most NHS treatment anyway. Now a bitter row is set to develop over claims that Hull Council is deliberately being starved of funds by Mr Prescott to punish the council's new Liberal Democrat rulers. While the commission holds more meetings about capturing the narrative of Scottish life (whatever that means), artists are being starved of funds. There is no disagreement that councils have been starved of funds by successive governments. Overall, the performance may be slowly improving - but the improvements are being made by the people who deliver the services on the front line and they are now being starved of funds. But it was the Indian scholars themselves making the fuss, expressing concern that research institutes back in Bharat were and are being starved of much-needed funds. The fact is that, even as we engage in this desperate struggle to conserve a dying language, other parts of our culture, affecting far more people, are being starved of funds. He argued that Mayo General Hospital was recognised by the Dept of Health and Children as the most efficient hospital in Europe and yet it was being starved of funds. Wavell believed that he was being starved of the necessary reinforcements which he believed he needed and he resigned in February 1942. The Nationals argue that regional universities would be starved of funds to provide services, and want the Government to give grants to ensure that sports or medical services don't have to be shut down. 2dialect, archaic no object Be freezing cold. 〈古〉处于严寒之中 pull down that window for we are perfectly starving here 请把那窗户拉下来，我们这里冷极了。 Example sentencesExamples [He'll] be obleeged to bring the shakedown near the fire..to keep her from starving with the cold. Phrases starve the beast Limit or reduce government expenditure by cutting taxes. conservatives like to say their strategy of tax cuts all the time is designed to starve the beast Example sentencesExamples A real strategy of starving the beast is not politically feasible in today's world or anytime soon. Most of our politicians cannot discipline themselves to spend other peoples' money wisely. Starve the beast! This is the kind of stuff that happens in the real world when "starve the beast" becomes the mantra of a powerful claque. In the next breath, sounding like a "starve the beast" conservative, she said she hoped the price of oil, the principal variable of state revenue, would not rise too much. The other big piece of that strategy is the use of tax cuts to 'starve the beast.' Origin Old English steorfan 'to die', of Germanic origin, probably from a base meaning 'be rigid' (compare with stare); related to Dutch sterven and German sterben. In Anglo-Saxon times starve simply meant ‘to die’, especially a lingering death from hunger, cold, disease, or grief. People continued to use the word in this way for many centuries, and in northern English dialect starve can still mean ‘to die of cold’. The origin of the word is probably an ancient Germanic base that meant ‘to be rigid’. This rigid/dead connection is preserved in the modern slang use of stiff to refer to a dead body. Rhymes Algarve, calve, carve, grave, Graves, halve, Slav, suave, Zouave verb.1 phr. Definition of starve in US English: starve verbstärvstɑrv [no object] 1(of a person or animal) suffer severely or die from hunger. （人，动物）挨饿；饿死 she left her animals to starve 她让她的动物挨饿。 seven million starved to death 饿死的有七百万人。 Example sentencesExamples My great-grandfather and his 26 year old daughter had been executed; his 34 year old son had frozen and starved to death in the Arctic gold mines of Kolyma. While some were executed, others, malnourished and starving, were forced to carry out labour beyond their physical capabilities. On that same day, Anna learned that, after being sent to Siberia by the Soviets, her parents had starved to death. In 1869, a 12-year-old called Sarah Jacob starved to death in a Welsh farmhouse, under the eye of doctors and nurses who were watching her around the clock. Otherwise, we'd all have frozen and starved to death. However by last weekend the inspectors had ruled out disease or environmental causes, heightening the speculation that the cattle starved to death over the long winter season. ‘But he had a beautiful nature and although he had nearly starved to death we felt he was recoverable,’ Ms Shields said. A prisoner has starved to death after fasting for seven months, becoming the 48th person to die in hunger strikes protesting against changes to Turkey's prison system. This explains why a car crash is more likely to be considered an event - and consequently to feature in the news - than the ongoing plight of people starving in Sudan. Police believe they starved to death in Dutroux's dungeon when he went to jail for four months in December, 1995, for stealing a car. There is no cause to regret the passing of that system - millions of peasants starved to death - and those who now point to the absence of school fees in that period are at any rate one-sided. They would not give me a pinch of flour even if I starved to death. When the liberators arrived they found more than 20,000 naked corpses of prisoners, who had starved to death, lying unburied on open ground. His brother, meanwhile, had starved to death, trapped in his wheelchair in a mountain of trash and accessible only via a network of tunnels. Firefighters were called in after fears grew that the black cats - who are yet to open their eyes - might have starved to death. To date, three of Jasmuheen's followers have starved to death. Vets estimated the dog, which had ripped the house apart in its frantic search for food, starved to death over eight weeks. Letters were piled up behind the door, but no food or drink was found in the flat and it is feared she may have starved to death after becoming too afraid to go outside. Of course, some Africans are starving and many are chronically poor, sick and hungry. She starved to death last year beside her mother's corpse in a Doncaster flat while the case workers who should have been protecting her found other things to do. Synonyms dying of hunger, dying from lack of food, faint from lack of food, deprived of food, undernourished, malnourished, starved, half-starved, unfed 1.1with object Cause (a person or animal) to suffer severely or die from hunger. （人，动物）挨饿；饿死 for a while she had considered starving herself 有一段时间她曾想饿死自己。 Example sentencesExamples He's starved them of food and equipment, and he brutally purges their officers with an almost banal regularity. I cannot trust a man who will starve children to death and think nothing of it. The primary objective of this campaign is to starve terrorists of essential funding and technical support… But what her parents say is we can't stand by as a loving mom and dad and watch her be starved or dehydrated to death. He was known as a skilful printer and darkroom operative, even though his sight was severely damaged after he was starved by his captors in the Second World War. Yet it has emerged as an all-too-real example of how a dictator enriches himself and his family while starving his people. How many children were starved, prisoners tortured, families separated in the time it took for her to go from helpless baby to mother's helper? But we could starve the beast to death by ceasing to provide its main source of food: our money. And people were getting mad at her because they thought she was starving the child, and yet she was eating more than she had ever eaten in her life. For example, if you starved a dog and chained it in the back yard for 6 months, you would be sentenced to an outdoor cage with as little food as you gave the dog. There's still a person there and they're starving her. Gulag prisoners were systemically starved, beaten, and forced to labor in sub-zero weather. Since you, his loving owner, have the power to either feed or starve your pet, your dog looks to you as its only supplier of food. Sure, you deal crack on the side, you beat your wife, you starve your kids, but you're straight and you go to church, so we're here to save you. If it is wrong to whip a dog or starve a horse or bait bears for sport or grossly abuse farm animals, it is wrong for all people in every place. Then we have the so called pet lovers who starve the family pet dog till his skeletal bone structure protrudes through its limp flesh. It sounds, through the distribution of land and the distribution of food, like the government is trying to hold on to control and starve its enemies into submission. Deliberately starving her would be a terrible thing. Some see another step towards the triumph of euthanasia - they stop at the idea of someone being starved against the wishes of her parents, and there's not another fact that matters. This is a regime that starves its own people so that it can do these things. 1.2be starving" or "starvedinformal Feel very hungry. I don't know about you, but I'm starving 我不知道你怎么样，但是我是饿坏了。 Example sentencesExamples It was getting near to midday and I was starving hungry. Everyone was famished, desperate and starving. She wished that when she opened her eyes, there would be a plate of steaming waffles next to her… because she was ravenously starving. She was starving, the empty rumbling in her stomach was witness to that, and she hurt so bad she felt like vomiting. He had not been starving; he had only been hungry. I was ravenously starving all the time and I have nothing but admiration for people who manage this lifestyle. After said party, back at the parents, Andy got really stroppy with me because I wasn't hungry even though he was starving. Aid agencies have rightly pointed out that many of the randomly dropped packages would have got lost, many would be destroyed on impact, and many eaten by people who were not starving. And though I was starving a few minutes ago, I was not hungry anymore. Synonyms ravenous, empty, hollow, faint from hunger 1.3starve someone out" or "into Force someone out of a place or into a specified state by stopping supplies of food. 以饥饿迫使就范，以饥饿强迫 the Royalists were starved out after eleven days 在经过11天以后，由于饥饿保皇党人被迫就范。 German U-boats hoping to starve Britain into submission 希望以饥饿来迫使英国屈服的德国潜艇。 Example sentencesExamples What if Germany's U-boats had won the Battle of the Atlantic and starved Britain into submission? Loggers should not drive indigenous cultures from the rainforest by ‘starving them out.’ Again, we could have blockaded and starved them out but that was not necessary. If the accused would neither submit to trial nor abjure the realm after 40 days, he was starved into submission. In 1896, the British had tried to quell Ndebele resistance in the Matopos by starving them out; Smith's army and police had tried something similar and for the same reasons. There is some rumor of Federal supporters trying to block the rail lines into Manassas Junction and starving us out, but so far all it has been is rumor. More often than not we went hungry anyway, but then they attempted to starve us out. It is not going beyond the limits of prudent statement to say that at any rate it will take a long time to starve us out. Instead, the state tried to starve us out for our agricultural unorthodoxy, then they charged us with starvation. The policy appears to be to ignore these people, starve them out, deny them healthcare and they will either die or go away. Battling granny Dot Kelly, from Farnworth, today said that British Coal tried to ‘starve her out’ of her sit-in 1,800 ft. below ground at closure threatened Parkside pit. Agha's troops had the Taliban forces surrounded and were intending to starve them into surrender. Many castles were very well defended and for some attacking armies, the only way to defeat them was to surround them and starve them out. They torched all buildings except the food stores so that the Romans could not say they were starved out. Sparta's victory at Aegospotami and its control of the Hellespont starved Athens into surrender in April 404. The Romans, in their turn, took to burning fields themselves, trying to starve Hannibal out, trying to weary his men. During the Great Siege of 1779-83, the garrison under General Elliott resisted all attempts to bombard or starve them out. ‘Moral issues are our bread and butter and we will not be starved out of this activity by such misguided and poorly grounded legislation,’ said Father Norden. ‘We will root them out and starve them out,’ Rumsfeld said, just before closing a news conference with a ringing declaration: ‘We are determined not to be terrorized.’ But clearly the Home Office is determined that, if it can't get asylum seekers out by the legal route, it will starve them out instead. 1.4usually be starved of" or "forwith object Deprive of something necessary. the arts are being starved of funds 文科正面临资金紧缺。 Example sentencesExamples The fact is that, even as we engage in this desperate struggle to conserve a dying language, other parts of our culture, affecting far more people, are being starved of funds. Overall, the performance may be slowly improving - but the improvements are being made by the people who deliver the services on the front line and they are now being starved of funds. They were being starved of funds at a time when the private health system was being built up by the government. He argued that Mayo General Hospital was recognised by the Dept of Health and Children as the most efficient hospital in Europe and yet it was being starved of funds. Mullan speaks about his children with affection, something he was starved of by his own father, Charles. But it was the Indian scholars themselves making the fuss, expressing concern that research institutes back in Bharat were and are being starved of much-needed funds. Wavell believed that he was being starved of the necessary reinforcements which he believed he needed and he resigned in February 1942. Public infrastructure is starved of funds to justify Private Public Partnerships. There is no disagreement that councils have been starved of funds by successive governments. University chiefs have warned that more than 100 arts and science departments are at risk of closure after being starved of research funds, writes Gareth Walsh. Not a duff track among them, honestly, and the thing didn't even make it past 20 minutes, so naturally I was starved for more. But this is endemic, unfortunately, we're in a situation where council houses have been starved of funds for years. The cost of this service is a dreadful waste of money which would have been better spent (as GPs advised) on local out-of-hours services which have been starved of funds while this system, driven by edict from London, was put in place. The nuclear submarine lobby, known in the Navy as the ‘Black Mafia’, went ruthlessly for Trident, even though it might mean that the rest of the Navy was starved of funds. Now a bitter row is set to develop over claims that Hull Council is deliberately being starved of funds by Mr Prescott to punish the council's new Liberal Democrat rulers. He has been starved of funds to rebuild the team and undermined by claims that the club's chief executive, Chris Robinson, and other directors might prefer another man in charge. Dentistry is perhaps an even better example - only when the NHS dentistry system was starved of funds did we see a major change to private treatment and insurance - and even there you actually had to pay to get most NHS treatment anyway. The Nationals argue that regional universities would be starved of funds to provide services, and want the Government to give grants to ensure that sports or medical services don't have to be shut down. I was starved for conversation and thrilled to have the company. While the commission holds more meetings about capturing the narrative of Scottish life (whatever that means), artists are being starved of funds. 2dialect, archaic Be freezing cold. 〈古〉处于严寒之中 pull down that window for we are perfectly starving here 请把那窗户拉下来，我们这里冷极了。 Example sentencesExamples [He'll] be obleeged to bring the shakedown near the fire..to keep her from starving with the cold. Phrases starve the beast Limit or reduce government expenditures by cutting taxes. conservatives like to say their strategy of tax cuts all the time is designed to starve the beast Example sentencesExamples A real strategy of starving the beast is not politically feasible in today's world or anytime soon. In the next breath, sounding like a "starve the beast" conservative, she said she hoped the price of oil, the principal variable of state revenue, would not rise too much. Most of our politicians cannot discipline themselves to spend other peoples' money wisely. Starve the beast! The other big piece of that strategy is the use of tax cuts to 'starve the beast.' This is the kind of stuff that happens in the real world when "starve the beast" becomes the mantra of a powerful claque. Origin Old English steorfan ‘to die’, of Germanic origin, probably from a base meaning ‘be rigid’ (compare with stare); related to Dutch sterven and German sterben. verb.1 phr.
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