Word Meaning

starve definition and meaning

v. i. To die; to perish.
v. i. To perish with hunger; to suffer extreme hunger or want; to be very indigent.
v. i. To perish or die with cold.
v. t. To destroy with cold.
v. t. To kill with hunger; as, maliciously to starve a man is, in law, murder.
v. t. To distress or subdue by famine; as, to starvea garrison into a surrender.
v. t. To destroy by want of any kind; as, to starve plans by depriving them of proper light and air.
v. t. To deprive of force or vigor; to disable.

Crossword clues for starve

- Averts alterations fast
- Averts disaster to go hungry
- Deprive
- Deprive of food
- Die of hunger
- Don’t feed but gaze around centre of gravity
- Don’t feed celebrity ... save half
- Don’t feed rats that return – we’ve eliminated half
- Eat nothing
- Go hungry
- Go without food
- Suffer from hunger
- Youth finally abandons poor harvest to die from hunger