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- Dictionarystarve/stɑːv/
verb
- 1. suffer or die or cause to suffer or die from hunger: "she left her animals to starve"
- 2. be freezing cold: archaic, dialect "pull down that window for we are perfectly starving here"
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STARVE definition: 1. to (cause someone to) become very weak or die because there is not enough food to eat: 2. to…. Learn more.
The meaning of STARVE is to perish from lack of food. How to use starve in a sentence.
verb (used with object) , starved, starv·ing. to cause to starve; kill, weaken, or reduce by lack of food. to subdue, or force to some condition or action, by hunger: to starve a besieged garrison into a surrender. to cause to suffer for lack of something needed or craved.
STARVE meaning: 1. to (cause someone to) become very weak or die because there is not enough food to eat: 2. to…. Learn more.
The verb starve means suffering or death caused by a lack of food, though people also use it as a dramatic way to say they are hungry, as in, "If we don't start cooking dinner now, I think I'll starve ." The word starve has origins in the Old English word steorfan, meaning “to die.”
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.
STARVE definition: to become sick or die because you do not have enough food, or to make someone sick or die because…. Learn more.
