Word Finder - starve

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To die; in later use especially to die slowly, waste away.

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To die because of lack of food or of not eating.

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To be very hungry.

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Hey, ma, I'm starving! What's for dinner?

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To destroy, make capitulate or at least make suffer by deprivation, notably of food.

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To deprive of nourishment or of some vital component.

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The patient's brain was starved of oxygen.

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To deteriorate for want of any essential thing.

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(especially Yorkshire and Lancashire) To kill with cold.

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I was half starved waiting out in that wind.

She'd just have to starve to death.

She'd starve in a day.

I'm about to starve to death.

I don't starve, and you don't die alone.

I thought you could use this, unless you're trying to starve yourself.

Towards the end of 545 the Gothic king took up his station at Tivoli and prepared to starve Rome into surrender, making at the same time elaborate preparations for checking the progress of Belisarius who was advancing to its relief.

The rest either starve or get killed.

Simply put, don't starve yourself -- just eat better.

If you knew someone who was a good business partner, was fun to hang out with, but let one of his children starve to death so that he could enjoy a higher standard of living, what would be your opinion of this person?

After he eats all the aphids, what are we going to do, starve him, or buy more aphids?

Not only could she not escape, but she could just as well starve to death if he decided never to return.

The king's death-bed request to his brother, "Let not poor Nelly starve," was faithfully carried out by James II., who paid her debts from the Secret Service fund, provided her with other moneys, and settled on her an estate with reversion to the duke of St Albans.

The continental system, which, by its leading to the blockade of Denmark, threatened to starve Iceland,was neutralized by special action of the British government.

Better yet, he was eager and passionate about battle, a rare trait among the warriors of Landis, who were forced to fight or starve!

They pick up hooks, line and weights while feeding and slowly starve to death.

Furthermore, if you starve yourself, your body will start to gain weight rather than lose it.

The full stream of his love and reverence is reserved for his mother; he never leaves her to starve, and her wishes are laws to him.

Without nitrogen fertilizers you or your children could starve.

They are you know what i can't mean to starve me, we can't mean Jane Finn.

They would soon invade Judah, kill their men, starve them in their cities.

He won't need to destroy ME, for if I don't get something to eat pretty soon I shall starve to death, and so save him the trouble.

Anorexic teens literally starve themselves.

If you starve yourself, you will put yourself at risk for medical issues and have a hard time concentrating in school.

It's true that anorexics will literally starve themselves, but this behavior is actually an attempt to use control over food as a coping mechanism for more severe emotional problems.

She has appeared on Celebrity Fit Club, a reality show that helps celebrities shed pounds, but she always maintains her fuller figure and doesn't intend to starve herself to make a weight that's unhealthy for her.

I think I'd rather starve.

You have we can't mean to starve me truly thankful.

People with anorexia do not wish to starve themselves to death but they do deny how seriously underweight they are.

You don't want your pet to get angry or starve to death!

However, since Renn once had to starve herself down to an unhealthy weight in order to work and is now a famous model at a normal size, it should still be considered a healthy step.

She believes in a healthy lifestyle and if it isn't realistic for her to starve herself down to a size 2, she won't do it.

By cutting back on your intake of breads, crackers, pasta, sweets, fresh fruits and dried fruits to within 20 to 60 grams of carbohydrate a day, you will "starve" the fungal population and reduce its reproduction ability.

For many people, calorie counting is the key to losing weight, and while a reduction in daily calories does help to take and keep the pounds off, you don't have to starve yourself to lose those pesky extra pounds.

Whoever you are, if you're thinking of selling this 'magazine bit' to all of Jerry's friends, you'll starve to death!

In spite of their desperate sallies, Jerusalem was surrounded by a wall, and its people, whose numbers were increased by those who had come up for the passover, were hemmed in to starve.

Doria resolved to blockade and starve Venice to surrender.

The war was very unpopular in Denmark, and the closing of the Sound against foreign shipping, in order to starve out Sweden, had exasperated the maritime powers and all the Baltic states.

A hastily collected force of 3000 men under C. Claudius Pulcher endeavoured to starve out the rebels, but the latter clambered down the precipices and put the Romans to flight.

I'd either return later or assault the door at my leisure or perhaps, better yet, let the bitch and child starve to death in lonely darkness.

Is it fair to starve us to death and then complain that your pound of flesh looks malnourished?

Yang also quotes Mao as saying in a 1959 meeting, When there is not enough to eat, people starve to death.

After all, can't let our men starve.

The yeast killing diet is a "back to basics" kind of diet designed to starve the yeast into submission.

Mwanga now determined to rid himself of Christians and Mahommedans alike by inducing them to proceed to an island in the lake, where he meant to leave them to starve.

Bees can also starve in the midst of plenty.

You have we ca n't mean to starve me truly thankful.

So stop trying to starve yourself to obliterate those last few pounds that keep you from looking like a stick-thin supermodel.

If you call me any of those things, I'll hang you upside down from this tree and watch you starve.

Everything. I'll starve to death by evening if you don't change me back.

He was finally compelled to take up arms against his Kumanian friends, whom he routed at Hodmezd (May 1282) with fearful loss; but, previously to this, he had arrested the legate, whom he subsequently attempted to starve into submission, and his conduct generally was regarded as so unsatisfactory that, after repeated warnings, the Holy See resolved to supersede him by his Angevin kinsfolk, whom he had also alienated, and on the 8th of August 1288 Pope Nicholas IV.