To report (a person or thing) as, for, to be (so and so), also to do (so and so). Chiefly in passive, to be currently reported or reputed.

transitive. ‘To starve with hunger’: formerly in regular use where the simple ‘starve’ is now usual.

transitive. To famish, starve.

transitive. To reduce to the extremities of famine and hunger; to starve. Also, †to famish away.

transitive. To pinch with hunger.

transitive. To distress with famine; to kill or subdue with hunger; to starve.

transitive. To cause to die of hunger (also to starve to death); to deprive of or keep only scantily supplied with food over a period of time. Now…

To subject to hunger; to starve, famish; to drive or force by hunger (to, into, out, etc.).

transitive. To pinch as hunger or fasting does; to waste with hunger, starve. (Also sometimes with reference to thirst.)

= famish, v.

transitive. To afflict with hunger or famine; to deprive of food; to famish. Also figurative.