starve
To die because of lack of food or of not eating.
Other meanings
To suffer severely because of lack of food or of not eating.
To be very hungry.
“I was starving so I wrote S.O.S. on the desert island using rocks.”
Related words
- bitstarve
- cash-starved
- ha'penny starver
- hunger-starve
- nonstarved
- nonstarving
- overstarve
- penny starver
- prestarved
- semistarved
- sex-starved
- starvation
Word history
From Old English "steorfan" (to die, perish).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “starve” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.