Starve

Verb

 * 1)   To die; in later use especially to die slowly, waste away.
 * 2) * 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.
 * 1)  To die because of lack of food or of not eating.
 * 2)  To be very hungry.
 * Hey, ma, I'm starving!
 * 1)  To destroy, make capitulate or at least make suffer by deprivation, notably of food
 * 2)  To deprive of nourishment.
 * They starved the child until it withered away.
 * 1)  To kill with cold.
 * I was half starved waiting out in that wind.
 * I was half starved waiting out in that wind.

Adverbs for Starve
deliberately; cruelly; pennilessly; genteelly; parsimoniously;  penuriously;   niggardly; mentally; gradually; agonizingly; ceaselessly; miserably.

Thesaurus
OD, annihilate, asphyxiate, be in want, be killed, be pinched, be poor, be ravenous, begrudge, bereave of life, carry away, carry off, chloroform, choke, cut down, cut off, deprive of life, destroy, dispatch, dispose of, do away with, do for, do to death, drown, end, execute, exterminate, eye hungrily, famish, feel hungry, finish, finish off, go on welfare, grudge, have a tapeworm, hunger, hunger for, immolate, kill, lack, launch into eternity, liquidate, live upon nothing, lynch, make away with, martyr, martyrize, need, pinch, pinch pennies, poison, purge, put away, put down, put to death, put to sleep, raven, remove from life, sacrifice, scamp, scant, screw, scrimp, skimp, slay, smother, stint, strangle, suffocate, take life, take off, thirst, thirst for, want

Etymology
From sterven:, from  steorfan:. Cognate with staarven:, Dutch sterven:, German sterben:.

Translations

 * Finnish:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 饿死
 * Dutch: verhongeren, sterven van de honger
 * Finnish:, kuolla nälkään
 * French: mourir de faim


 * Hungarian: éhenhal
 * Korean: 굶어죽다 (gul-meo-juk-da)
 * Swedish: svälta
 * Telugu: ఆకలిచావు


 * Dutch: rammelen/sterven van de honger
 * Finnish: kuolla nälkään
 * French: être affamé
 * Hungarian: éhezik


 * Swedish: svälta, vara svulten, vara utsvulten
 * Telugu: ఘోరకలి
 * Welsh: llwgu


 * Finnish:


 * Swedish: svälta (ut)


 * Dutch: uithongeren
 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian: éheztet


 * Swedish: svälta (ut)
 * Telugu: చప్పిడికూడు


 * French:
 * Telugu: పస్తు

Derived terms

 * starvation
 * starveling
 * starving

Anagrams

 * averts
 * traves
 * vaster