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Starve (st&ä;rv), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Starved (st&ä;rvd); p. pr. & vb. n. Starving.] [OE. sterven to die, AS. steorfan; akin to D. sterven, G. sterben, OHG. sterban, Icel. starf labor, toil.] 1. To die; to perish. [Obs., except in the sense of perishing with cold or hunger.] Lydgate.
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In hot coals he hath himself raked . . .
Thus starved this worthy mighty Hercules. Chaucer.
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2. To perish with hunger; to suffer extreme hunger or want; to be very indigent.
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Sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed. Pope.
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3. To perish or die with cold. Spenser.
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Have I seen the naked starve for cold? Sandys.
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Starving with cold as well as hunger. W. Irving.
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&hand_; In this sense, still common in England, but rarely used in the United States.
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Starve, v. t. 1. To destroy with cold. [Eng.]
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From beds of raging fire, to starve in ice
Their soft ethereal warmth. Milton.
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2. To kill with hunger; as, maliciously to starve a man is, in law, murder.
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3. To distress or subdue by famine; as, to starve a garrison into a surrender.
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Attalus endeavored to starve Italy by stopping their convoy of provisions from Africa. Arbuthnot.
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4. To destroy by want of any kind; as, to starve plants by depriving them of proper light and air.
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5. To deprive of force or vigor; to disable.
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The pens of historians, writing thereof, seemed starved for matter in an age so fruitful of memorable actions. Fuller.
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The powers of their minds are starved by disuse. Locke.
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