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starve

🇬🇧 UK/stɑ:v/🇺🇸 US
IELTSTOEFLB2

Definitions

v.

To suffer or die from lack of food; to deprive a person or animal of food.

挨饿；饿死；使挨饿

🧩 Root Breakdown

Native English
starveother
=starve

Common Collocations

  • 1.starve to death饿死
  • 2.starve for attention渴望得到关注
  • 3.[starve out]断粮逼降
  • 4.go starving挨饿

Example Sentences

  • 1.

    Children in the war-torn country were starving, with no food or clean water available.

  • 2.

    I'm absolutely starving — I haven't eaten anything since this morning.

  • 3.

    The siege was designed to starve the city into surrender.

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