The meaning of STARVE is to perish from lack of food. How to use starve in a sentence.

Deliberately inflicting starvation upon a population is a crime according to international criminal law and may also be used as a means of torture or execution.

Get a quick, free translation! STARVING definition: 1. dying because of not having enough food: 2. very hungry: 3. extremely cold: . Learn more.

1. To cause to starve. 2. To force to a specified state by starving: starved the town into submission.

Without food they would starve. They left him to starve out in the desert. Those people are starving.

If you say that you are starving, you mean that you are very hungry. Apart from anything else I was starving.

Definition of starve verb in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

to (cause to) feel a strong need or desire: [be + ~-ing + for + object] The child is starving for affection. [~ + object] The children were being starved of affection.

/ˈstɑvɪŋ/ IPA guide Other forms: starvings Definitions of starving adjective suffering from lack of food synonyms: starved

STARVE definition: to die or perish from lack of food or nourishment. See examples of starve used in a sentence.