The meaning of STARVE is to perish from lack of food. How to use starve in a sentence.

starving adjective (COLD) [ after verb ] Scottish English or Northern English extremely cold:

1. To cause to starve. 2. To force to a specified state by starving: starved the town into submission.

Deliberately inflicting starvation upon a population is a crime according to international criminal law and may also be used as a means of torture or execution.

Without food they would starve. They left him to starve out in the desert. Those people are starving.

To starve someone means not to give them any food. Judy decided I was starving myself. [VERB pronoun-reflexive]

Definition of starve verb in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

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I'm starved/starving. to (cause to) feel a strong need or desire: [be + ~-ing + for + object] The child is starving for affection. [~ + object] The children were being starved of affection.

/ˈstɑvɪŋ/ IPA guide Other forms: starvings Definitions of starving adjective suffering from lack of food synonyms: starved