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STARVE, v.i. [G., to die, either by disease or hunger, or by a wound.]

1. To perish; to be destroyed. [In this general sense, obsolete.]

2. To perish or die with cold; as, to starve with cold. [This sense is retained in England, but not in the United States.

3. To perish with hunger. [This sense is retained in England and the United States.]

4. To suffer extreme hunger or want; to be very indigent.

Sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed.

STARVE, v.t.

1. To kill with hunger. Maliciously to starve a man is, in law, murder.

2. To distress or subdue by famine; as, to starve a garrison into a surrender.

3. To destroy by want; as, to starve plants by the want of nutriment.

4. To kill with cold. [Not in use in the United States.]

From beds of raging fire to starve in ice their soft ethereal warmth--

5. To deprive of force or vigor.

The powers of their minds are starved by disuse. [Unusual.]


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STARVE, v.i. [G., to die, either by disease or hunger, or by a wound.]

1. To perish; to be destroyed. [In this general sense, obsolete.]

2. To perish or die with cold; as, to starve with cold. [This sense is retained in England, but not in the United States.

3. To perish with hunger. [This sense is retained in England and the United States.]

4. To suffer extreme hunger or want; to be very indigent.

Sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed.

STARVE, v.t.

1. To kill with hunger. Maliciously to starve a man is, in law, murder.

2. To distress or subdue by famine; as, to starve a garrison into a surrender.

3. To destroy by want; as, to starve plants by the want of nutriment.

4. To kill with cold. [Not in use in the United States.]

From beds of raging fire to starve in ice their soft ethereal warmth--

5. To deprive of force or vigor.

The powers of their minds are starved by disuse. [Unusual.]

STARVE, v.i. [Sax. stearfian, to perish with hunger or cold; G. sterben, to die, either by disease or hunger, or by a wound; D. sterven, to die. Qu. is this from the root of Dan. tarv, Sw. tarf, necessity, want?]

  1. To perish; to be destroyed. Fairfax. [In this general sense, obsolete.]
  2. To perish or die with cold; as, to starve with cold. [This sense is retained in England, but not in the United States.]
  3. To perish with hunger. [This sense is retained in England and the United States.]
  4. To suffer extreme hunger or want; to be very indigent. Sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed. – Pope.

STARVE, v.t.

  1. To kill with hunger. Maliciously to starve a man is, in law, murder.
  2. To distress or subdue by famine; as, to starve a garrison into a surrender.
  3. To destroy by want; as, to starve plants by the want of nutriment.
  4. To kill with cold. [Not in use in the United States.] From beds of raging fire to starve in ice / Their soft ethereal warmth. – Milton.
  5. To deprive of force or vigor. The powers of their minds are starved by disuse. [Unusual.] – Locke.

Starve
  1. To die; to perish.

    [Obs., except in the sense of perishing with cold or hunger.] Lydgate.

    In hot coals he hath himself raked . . .
    Thus starved this worthy mighty Hercules.     Chaucer.

  2. To destroy with cold.

    [Eng.]

    From beds of raging fire, to starve in ice
    Their soft ethereal warmth.     Milton.

  3. To perish with hunger; to suffer extreme hunger or want; to be very indigent.

    Sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed. Pope.

  4. To kill with hunger; as, maliciously to starve a man is, in law, murder.
  5. To perish or die with cold.

    Spenser.

    Have I seen the naked starve for cold? Sandys.

    Starving with cold as well as hunger. W. Irving.

    * In this sense, still common in England, but rarely used of the United States.

  6. To distress or subdue by famine; as, to starvea garrison into a surrender.

    Attalus endeavored to starve Italy by stopping their convoy of provisions from Africa. Arbuthnot.

  7. To destroy by want of any kind; as, to starve plans by depriving them of proper light and air.
  8. To deprive of force or vigor; to disable.

    The pens of historians, writing thereof, seemed starved for matter in an age so fruitful of memorable actions. Fuller.

    The powers of their minds are starved by disuse. Locke.

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Starve

STARVE, verb intransitive [G., to die, either by disease or hunger, or by a wound.]

1. To perish; to be destroyed. [In this general sense, obsolete.]

2. To perish or die with cold; as, to starve with cold. [This sense is retained in England, but not in the United States.

3. To perish with hunger. [This sense is retained in England and the United States.]

4. To suffer extreme hunger or want; to be very indigent.

Sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed.

STARVE, verb transitive

1. To kill with hunger. Maliciously to starve a man is, in law, murder.

2. To distress or subdue by famine; as, to starve a garrison into a surrender.

3. To destroy by want; as, to starve plants by the want of nutriment.

4. To kill with cold. [Not in use in the United States.]

From beds of raging fire to starve in ice their soft ethereal warmth--

5. To deprive of force or vigor.

The powers of their minds are starved by disuse. [Unusual.]

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IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

3. Weight or consequence in self-estimation.

He believes himself a man of importance.

4. Thing implied; matter; subject; importunity. [In these senses, obsolete.]

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