Definizione monolingua

starve

starve (third-person singular simple present starves, present participle starving, simple past starved, past participle starved or rarely storven)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To die; in later use especially to die slowly, waste away.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.i.4:

     noble Britomart / Released her, that else was like to sterue, / Through cruell knife that her deare heart did kerue.

2. (intransitive) To die because of lack of food or of not eating.
   • 2007, Lisa Wingate, A Thousand Voices?, page 76:

     ""When all of you starve to death, Shasta, dont come crying to me, thats all.""

3. (intransitive) To be very hungry.

   Hey, ma, Im starving!

4. (transitive) To destroy, make capitulate or at least make suffer by deprivation, notably of food
5. (transitive) To deprive of nourishment.

   They starved the child until it withered away.

6. (transitive, UK, especially Yorkshire and Lancashire) To kill with cold.

   I was half starved waiting out in that wind.

Definizione dizionario starve

affamare

far morire di fame

morire di fame

rubare

scoprire

Altri significati:

to deprive of nourishment

(intransitive, obsolete) To die; in later use especially to die slowly, waste away.

(transitive) To destroy, make capitulate or at least make suffer by deprivation, notably of food

to die because of lack of food

(intransitive) To be very hungry.

to destroy by deprivation

to be very hungry

(transitive) To deprive of nourishment.

(transitive, UK, especially Yorkshire and Lancashire) To kill with cold.

To die from lack of food.

(intransitive) To die because of lack of food or of not eating.