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Word: starve (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Verb:

  • obsolete To die, in general:
  • intransitive To be very hungry.
  • intransitive To die because of lack of food or of not eating.
  • British|especially Yorkshire and Lancashire To kill with cold.
  • transitive To deprive of nourishment.
  • transitive To destroy, make capitulate or at least make suffer by deprivation, notably of food

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