starve
    v 1: be hungry; go without food; "Let's eat--I'm starving!"
         [syn: starve, hunger, famish] [ant: be full]
    2: die of food deprivation; "The political prisoners starved to
       death"; "Many famished in the countryside during the drought"
       [syn: starve, famish]
    3: deprive of food; "They starved the prisoners" [syn: starve,
       famish] [ant: feed, give]
    4: have a craving, appetite, or great desire for [syn: crave,
       hunger, thirst, starve, lust]
    5: deprive of a necessity and cause suffering; "he is starving
       her of love"; "The engine was starved of fuel"

Starve \Starve\ (st[aum]rv), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Starved
   (st[aum]rvd); p. pr. & vb. n. Starving.] [OE. sterven to
   die, AS. steorfan; akin to D. sterven, G. sterben, OHG.
   sterban, Icel. starf labor, toil.]
   1. To die; to perish. [Obs., except in the sense of perishing
      with cold or hunger.] --Lydgate.
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            In hot coals he hath himself raked . . .
            Thus starved this worthy mighty Hercules. --Chaucer.
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   2. To perish with hunger; to suffer extreme hunger or want;
      to be very indigent.
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            Sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed. --Pope.
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   3. To perish or die with cold. --Spenser.
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            Have I seen the naked starve for cold? --Sandys.
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            Starving with cold as well as hunger. --W. Irving.
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   Note: In this sense, still common in England, but rarely used
         in the United States.
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Starve \Starve\, v. t.
   1. To destroy with cold. [Eng.]
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            From beds of raging fire, to starve in ice
            Their soft ethereal warmth.           --Milton.
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   2. To kill with hunger; as, maliciously to starve a man is,
      in law, murder.
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   3. To distress or subdue by famine; as, to starve a garrison
      into a surrender.
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            Attalus endeavored to starve Italy by stopping their
            convoy of provisions from Africa.     --Arbuthnot.
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   4. To destroy by want of any kind; as, to starve plants by
      depriving them of proper light and air.
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   5. To deprive of force or vigor; to disable.
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            The pens of historians, writing thereof, seemed
            starved for matter in an age so fruitful of
            memorable actions.                    --Fuller.
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            The powers of their minds are starved by disuse.
                                                  --Locke.
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