starve 
(stärv)
(stärv)v. starved, starv·ing, starves
v.intr.
1. To suffer or die from extreme or prolonged lack of food.
2. Informal To be hungry.
3. To suffer from deprivation: a puppy starving for attention.
4. Archaic To suffer or die from cold.
v.tr.
1. To cause to starve.
2. To force to a specified state by starving: starved the town into submission.
[Middle English sterven, to die, from Old English steorfan; see ster-1 in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]