Starve /(stärv)/

imp. & p. p. Starved; p. pr. & vb. n. Starving

1. To die; to perish. [Obs., except in the sense of perishing with cold or hunger.]

   In hot coals he hath himself raked . . . Thus starved this worthy mighty Hercules.

2. To perish with hunger; to suffer extreme hunger or want; to be very indigent.

   Sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed.

3. To perish or die with cold.

   Have I seen the naked starve for cold?

   Starving with cold as well as hunger.

1. To destroy with cold. [Eng.]

   From beds of raging fire, to starve in ice Their soft ethereal warmth.

2. To kill with hunger; as, maliciously to starve a man is, in law, murder.
3. To distress or subdue by famine; as, to starve a garrison into a surrender.

   Attalus endeavored to starve Italy by stopping their convoy of provisions from Africa.

4. To destroy by want of any kind; as, to starve plants by depriving them of proper light and air.
5. To deprive of force or vigor; to disable.

   The pens of historians, writing thereof, seemed starved for matter in an age so fruitful of memorable actions.

   The powers of their minds are starved by disuse.