starve S3 / stɑv $ stɑrv / 动词

1 [不及物动词] to suffer or die because you do not have enough to eat :

Thousands of people will starve if food doesn’t reach the city.

pictures of starving children

They’ll either die from the cold or starve to death (= die from lack of food ) .

2 [及物动词] to prevent someone from having enough food to live :

The poor dog looked like it had been starved.

3 be starving ( also be starved American English ) to be very hungry :

You must be starving!

starve somebody/something of something ( also starve somebody/something for something American English ) 短语动词 [通常被动态]

to not give something that is needed :

The schools are starved of funding.

The poor kid’s just starved for attention.

starve somebody ↔ out 短语动词

to force someone to leave a place by preventing them from getting food :

If we can’t blast them out, we’ll starve them out!