单词 | to starve for |
释义 | > as lemmasto starve for ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > manner of death > die in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > die lingeringly starvelOE strugglea1674 the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > hunger > be hungry [verb (intransitive)] > be starving starvelOE enfaimlec1475 to have cold at the teeth1484 to have the teeth cold1484 famish1535 to famish away1535 famine1553 starve1578 clem1600 affamish1622 lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1124 Se man þe æni god heafde, him me hit beræfode mid strange geoldes..; þe nan ne heafde stærf of hungor. ?a1160 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1137 Wrecce men sturuen of hungær. a1225 (?OE) MS Vesp. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 233 Þa were cofe abruden into þesternesse þe hi sturfe hungre. c1300 St. Mary Magdalen (Laud) l. 244 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 469 (MED) Muche me þinchez wunder Þat þou last Iesu cristes folk þus steorue for hungur! c1405 (?c1375–90) G. Chaucer Monk's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 761 Hym self despeired eek for hunger starf [c1430 Cambr. Gg.4.27 starfe]. 1528 Rede me & be nott Wrothe sig. f viv Playnly for honger they shulde sterve, Excepte they wolde to laboure fall. 1567 G. Turberville Epitaphes, Epigrams f. 135 Though Tantall, Pelops Sonne,abide the Dropsie dry,And sterue with hunger where he hathboth Foode and Water by. 1584 H. Llwyd & D. Powel Hist. Cambria 109 Meredyth..whome Blethyn pursued so straightlie, that he starued for cold and hunger vpon the mountaines. 1615 J. Sylvester Hymn of Almes 50 in 2nd Session Parl. Vertues Reall To stark for Cold, to starue for Food, to perish In Penury. 1650 J. Lamont Diary (1830) 24 A collectione..for supplying the prisoners in England..that were sterueing for famine. 1707 M. Prior Satire upon Poets 153 Starving for Meat, not surfeiting on Praise. 1735 J. Arbuthnot Ess. Nature Aliments (ed. 3) 48 An Animal that starves of Hunger dies feverish, and delirious. 1816 Augusta Rev. 3 503 Who can suffer, in silence and indifference, their countrymen to starve with hunger and cold, rather than contribute to the relief of their necessities. 1861 T. Bullock & F. Bullock Illustr. Hist. Eng. i. 8 They had no markets from which to buy their food, and they were compelled to hunt wild beasts..or to starve of hunger. < as lemmas |
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