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Meanings of starve in English

Portuguese
esfomear
Catalan
fer passar fam

Have a craving, appetite, or great desire for.

esfomear
Usage of starve in English
1
Without Labor, Capital would starve; without Capital, Labor could live in luxury.
Born Again
2
Those sanctions aim to starve Iran of funds for developing nuclear weapons.
Reuters
3
Can the slow-growing, heavily indebted south starve its way back to health?
Reuters
4
As long as he kept his health he would never outright starve.
The secret river
5
We're not going to let them starve while that happens, Schumer said.
Reuters
6
And in war or disaster, when industry breaks down, the people starve.
Foundation and Empire
7
Very well, there was no work, his wife and children must starve.
The Godfather
8
Cram the mind and starve the heart-thisis the great popular idolatry.
True to his Colours / The Life that Wears Best
9
The people might all starve before we got to any actual relief.
The Gadfly
10
Nor was ever child of mine left to starve in the wilderness.
Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor
11
It was feast together when plenty comes; starve together when plenty goes.
On the Indian Trail / Stories of Missionary Work among Cree and ...
12
But you must take care of yourself; you must not starve yourself.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 / Magazi...
13
It's about trying to starve independent TV and radio stations of income.
The Guardian
14
Many would choose to starve before giving allegiance to an agrarian-merchant state.
A Canticle For Leibowitz
15
The greatest of all questions was thus settled: I should not starve.
The Quest of the Simple Life
16
Look at old misers; first they starve their dependants, and then themselves.
The Professor at the Breakfast-Table
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Starve through the time
Starve across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common
Ireland
Less common