Found 3 items, similar to Starve.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: starve mati kelaparan
English → English (WordNet) Definition: starve starve v 1: be hungry; go without food; “Let's eat--I'm starving!” [syn: 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: famish] 3: deprive of food; “They starved the prisoners” [syn: famish] [ant: feed] 4: have a craving, appetite, or great desire for [syn: crave, hunger, thirst, lust] 5: deprive of a necessity and cause suffering; “he is starving her of love”; “The engine was starved of fuel”
English → English (gcide) Definition: Starve Starve \Starve\, v. t. 1. To destroy with cold. [Eng.] [1913 Webster] From beds of raging fire, to starve in ice Their soft ethereal warmth. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. To kill with hunger; as, maliciously to starve a man is, in law, murder. [1913 Webster] 3. To distress or subdue by famine; as, to starve a garrison into a surrender. [1913 Webster] Attalus endeavored to starve Italy by stopping their convoy of provisions from Africa. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster] 4. To destroy by want of any kind; as, to starve plants by depriving them of proper light and air. [1913 Webster] 5. To deprive of force or vigor; to disable. [1913 Webster] The pens of historians, writing thereof, seemed starved for matter in an age so fruitful of memorable actions. --Fuller. [1913 Webster] The powers of their minds are starved by disuse. --Locke. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] In hot coals he hath himself raked . . . Thus starved this worthy mighty Hercules. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 2. To perish with hunger; to suffer extreme hunger or want; to be very indigent. [1913 Webster] Sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed. --Pope. [1913 Webster] 3. To perish or die with cold. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] Have I seen the naked starve for cold? --Sandys. [1913 Webster] Starving with cold as well as hunger. --W. Irving. [1913 Webster] Note: In this sense, still common in England, but rarely used in the United States. [1913 Webster]