starve
- IPA[stärv]
美式
- (of a person or animal) suffer severely or die from hunger；cause (a person or animal) to suffer severely or die from hunger
verb: starve, 3rd person present: starves, gerund or present participle: starving, past tense: starved, past participle: starved
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動詞
- 1. (of a person or animal) suffer severely or die from hunger she left her animals to starve seven million starved to death
- ▪ cause (a person or animal) to suffer severely or die from hunger for a while she had considered starving herself
- ▪ informal feel very hungry I don't know about you, but I'm starving
- ▪ force someone out of a place or into a specified state by stopping supplies of food the Royalists were starved out after eleven days German U-boats hoping to starve Britain into submission
- ▪ deprive of something necessary the arts are being starved of funds
- 2. archaic, dialect be freezing cold pull down that window for we are perfectly starving here
- limit or reduce government expenditure by cutting taxes
Oxford Dictionary
- limit or reduce government expenditures by cutting taxes
Oxford American Dictionary
- very poorly fed; malnourished: a half-starved prisoner people with thin, half-starved bodies
Oxford American Dictionary
- lacking and strongly desiring sexual gratification: as sex-starved adolescents we preened in front of our bedroom mirrors
Oxford American Dictionary
- lacking and strongly desiring sexual gratification: as sex-starved adolescents we preened in front of our bedroom mirrors
Oxford Dictionary
- very poorly fed or nourished: a half-starved prisoner people with thin, half-starved bodies
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- IPA[stɑːv]
英式
- suffer or die or cause to suffer or die from hunger: she left her animals to starve seven million starved to death
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