英语词汇“starve”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

starve

释义

Verb: starve staa(r)v

Be hungry; go without food
"Let's eat--I'm starving!"
- hunger, famish
Die of food deprivation
"The political prisoners starved to death"
- famish
Deprive of food
"They starved the prisoners"
- famish
Have a craving, appetite, or great desire for
- crave, hunger, thirst, lust
Deprive of a necessity and cause suffering
"he is starving her of love"; "The engine was starved of fuel"

Derived forms: starves, starving, starved

See also: starvation

Type of: buy the farm [N. Amer], cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, deprive, desire, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, hurt, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, pop one's clogs, snuff it, suffer, want

Antonym: be full, feed

Encyclopedia: Starve

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