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Starve

Starve (starve)
v. i.(?)
Starve
[imp. *** p. p. Starved (?)] p. pr. *** vb. n. Starving.] [OE. sterven to die, AS. steorfan] akin to D. sterven, G. sterben, OHG. sterban, Icel. starf
  1. To die; to perish.
    [Obs., except in the sense of perishing with cold or hunger.] Lydgate.

    In hot coals he hath himself raked . . .
    Thus starved this worthy mighty Hercules.     Chaucer.

  2. To perish with hunger; to suffer extreme hunger or want; to be very indigent.

    Sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed. Pope.

  3. To perish or die with cold.
    Spenser.

    Have I seen the naked starve for cold? Sandys.

    Starving with cold as well as hunger. W. Irving.

    * In this sense, still common in England, but rarely used of the United States.

Starve

Starve (starve)
v. t.
Starve
  1. To destroy with cold.
    [Eng.]

    From beds of raging fire, to starve in ice
    Their soft ethereal warmth.     Milton.

  2. To kill with hunger; as, maliciously to starve a man is, in law, murder.
  3. To distress or subdue by famine; as, to starvea garrison into a surrender.

    Attalus endeavored to starve Italy by stopping their convoy of provisions from Africa. Arbuthnot.

  4. To destroy by want of any kind; as, to starve plans by depriving them of proper light and air.
  5. To deprive of force or vigor; to disable.

    The pens of historians, writing thereof, seemed starved for matter in an age so fruitful of memorable actions. Fuller.

    The powers of their minds are starved by disuse. Locke.













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