starve
/stɑːv/verb
no obj.
1
- (of a person or animal) suffer severely or die from hunger（人, 动物）挨饿; 饿死：
she left her animals to starve
她让她的动物挨饿
seven million starved to death
饿死的有七百万人
as adj. starving the world's starving children.世界上处于饥饿中的孩子。
1.1
- with obj. cause (a person or animal) to suffer severely or die from hunger使挨饿; 使饿死：
for a while she had considered starving herself.
有一段时间她曾想饿死自己。
1.2
- （be starving或starved）informal feel very hungry〈非正式〉饿极, 饿得慌：
I don't know about you, but I'm starving.
我不知道你怎么样, 但是我是饿坏了。
1.3
- （starve someone out 或 into）force someone out of a place or into a specified state by stopping supplies of food以饥饿迫使就范, 以饥饿强迫：
the Royalists were starved out after eleven days
在经过11天以后, 由于饥饿保皇党人被迫就范
German U-boats hoping to starve Britain into submission.
希望以饥饿来迫使英国屈服的德国潜艇。
1.4
- with obj. [usu. be starved of 或 〈美〉for] deprive of something necessary使匮乏, 使急需：
the arts are being starved of funds.
文科正面临资金紧缺。
2
- archaic be freezing cold〈古〉处于严寒之中：
pull down that window for we are perfectly starving here.
请把那窗户拉下来, 我们这里冷极了。
派生词
starvation
noun词源
Old English steorfan 'to die', of Germanic origin, probably from a base meaning 'be rigid' （compare with STARE）; related to Dutch sterven and German sterben.