starve
verb/stɑːv/
/stɑːrv/
Verb Forms
Idioms Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they starve | /stɑːv/ /stɑːrv/ |
| he / she / it starves | /stɑːvz/ /stɑːrvz/ |
| past simple starved | /stɑːvd/ /stɑːrvd/ |
| past participle starved | /stɑːvd/ /stɑːrvd/ |
| -ing form starving | /ˈstɑːvɪŋ/ /ˈstɑːrvɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive, transitive] to suffer or die because you do not have enough food to eat; to make somebody suffer or die in this way
（使）挨饿，饿死 - The animals were left to starve to death.
那些动物只能等着饿死。 - pictures of starving children
展示饥饿儿童的图片 - The new job doesn't pay as much but we won't starve!
新工作的工资没有过去多，不过我们不至于挨饿！ - starve somebody/yourself She's starving herself to try to lose weight.
她试图通过节食来减肥。 - Many of the prisoners looked half starved.
许多囚犯看起来都快饿死了。
Extra ExamplesTopics Social issuesb2- He locked them in a room and left them to starve.
他把他们锁在一间屋子里，任由他们捱饿。 - She refused food and literally starved herself to death.
她拒绝进食，把自己活活饿死了。 - The poor cat was half starved.
这只可怜的猫已经饿得半死了。 - Their policies will leave innocent children starving in the streets.
他们的政策将让无辜的儿童流落街头，忍饥捱饿。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- slowly
- literally
- leave somebody to
- for
- of
- be half starved
- keep somebody from starving
- starve in the streets
- …
- The animals were left to starve to death.
- -starved(in adjectives) not having something that you need
缺乏…的；急需…的 - supply-starved rebels
补给匮乏的反叛者
- supply-starved rebels
Word OriginOld English steorfan ‘to die’, of Germanic origin, probably from a base meaning ‘be rigid’ (compare with stare); related to Dutch sterven and German sterben.
Idioms
be starving (for something)
(also be starved especially in North American English)
- (informal) to feel very hungry
饿得很 - When's the food coming? I'm starving!
食物什么时候上来？我快饿死了！
- When's the food coming? I'm starving!