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Meaning starve meaning

What does starve mean?
Definitions in simple English

starve Verb

— When you starve, you die from not having enough food. Many people starved in this earthquake as there was not enough food available. She wanted to be thin and she ended up starving herself to death. — When you are starving, you are very hungry. I didn't eat my breakfast and now I'm starving.

starve

— verb be hungry; go without food Let's eat--I'm starving! — verb (= famish) die of food deprivation The political prisoners starved to death Many famished in the countryside during the drought — verb deprive of food They starved the prisoners — verb deprive of a necessity and cause suffering he is starving her of love The engine was starved of fuel — verb (= crave) have a craving, appetite, or great desire for

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starve English » English

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Topics starve topics

What do people use starve to talk about?
Person Life

Die
Person Healthy Disease

Malnutrition, starvation
Person Life Die

Kill
States Quantity Enough

Lack

Conjugation starve conjugation

How do you conjugate starve?

starve · verb

Examples starve examples

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Simple sentences

I would rather starve than steal.
I would rather starve than start stealing.
Tom isn't going to starve to death.
I might as well starve as do such a thing.
Feed a cold and starve a fever.
I would rather starve to death than steal.
It is a pity that some people starve to death even in the midst of plenty.
Millions of people starve to death every year.
In rich countries, few people starve.
Do you know how many people in the world starve to death every year?
I'd rather starve than steal.
We'll starve.
Tom will starve.
Tom won't starve.
Tom will not starve.
I hope we don't starve to death.
We cannot stand quiet and watch people starve.
I would rather starve than work under him.
Stuff today and starve tomorrow.
They'll starve.
I don't want them to starve.

Movie subtitles

It's not like it was hard to live or even starve to death.
Nowadays we don't have much customers and we're about to starve to death.
Well, we won't starve, anyway.
I started out for New York and I'm going to get there if I have to starve all the way.
I want to starve in a garret.
I don't know about you, my dear.. butI doknowwhatitmeans to repress yourself, starve yourself.. throughwhatyouconceivetobe your duty to others.
You can beat and starve us Saxons now.. but when King Richard escapes, he'll take you by the scruff of the neck.. andflingyouintothesea!
They've got factories, shipyards, coal mines. and a fleet to bottle up our harbors and starve us.
I won't have you all starve, simply because I threw myself at your head.
That means he'll starve and whip them.
You're doing business with the people. who robbed us, tortured us and left us to starve.
Do they starve you at home. Miller?
Remember how you used to starve them when you were undermatron?
I' going back and starve because I'd rather starve all over at once.
But he'd rather starve than make the first move.
Fine, if you'd rather starve.
Your little Julie isn't going to starve.
We starve.
You can flog those fellows, starve them but they'll bob up again with a fiddle.
The captains I've served with didn't starve their men.
They'll starve or drown.
They can't press-gang you there, they can't starve you, and can't flog you.
You're saying to yourself, it's not my fault if people starve.
Just so long as those poor men and women don't starve.
You can beat and starve us Saxons now but when King Richard escapes, he'll take you by the scruff of the neck and fling you into the sea!
I don't care about food for myself, Sash but if you let a great American author starve, his blood will be on your hands.
They've got factories, shipyards, coal mines and a fleet to bottle up our harbors and starve us.
I prefer going to prison as a debtor, rather than let my wife starve.
While the King wastes money on his mistresses, the rest of us must starve.
Starve!
What good will it do you to send us home to starve?
We can't starve so we borrow things.
WE CAN STARVE.
If I didn't have a few tolerant friends, I'd starve to death.

News and current affairs

The answer is obvious: city dwellers riot; in the countryside, people just starve.
Hugo Chavez's government faced a widespread opposition strike, whose intent was not only to demonstrate popular opposition, but also to starve the government of revenue.
Central government can easily starve the regions and local communities of their lifeblood.
What emerged was neither traditional fiscal conservatism nor Democratic policies without Democrats nor starve-the-beast populism, but something that has no name.
Rather than starve or freeze, they will move, and wherever they march, political unrest will follow.
Wolfensohn made some progress, but it was not enough, especially when the United States, Israel, and the European Union chose to starve the Palestinians financially after Hamas won its unexpected victory in the January 2006 Palestinian elections.
People will starve to death in the interim, but the budget will be balanced.
Whittle away at incentives - and at the market's ability to communicate them through price signals - and you starve the growth engine of its fuel.
Wartime inflation destroyed stability in the Russian empire in 1917, as farmers, worried about the declining value of their money, hoarded their output and let the cities starve.
It exists, in part, because individuals know that civilized societies will never stand by and watch the elderly starve.
If the chaebols continue to do their own advertising, financing, and IT, they will starve SMEs.
Those who impose these restrictions follow a shared logic: they do not wish to see their own populations starve.

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