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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