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starve

/stahrv/US // stɑrv //UK // (stɑːv) //

饿死,饿死了,饿肚子,饿着肚子

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
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    starved, starv·ing.

    • : to die or perish from lack of food or nourishment.
    • : to be in the process of perishing or suffering severely from hunger.
    • : to suffer from extreme poverty and need.
    • : to feel a strong need or desire: The child was starving for affection.
    • : Chiefly British Dialect. to perish or suffer extremely from cold.
    • : Obsolete. to die.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    starved, starv·ing.

    • : to cause to starve; kill, weaken, or reduce by lack of food.
    • : to subdue, or force to some condition or action, by hunger: to starve a besieged garrison into a surrender.
    • : to cause to suffer for lack of something needed or craved.
    • : Chiefly British Dialect. to cause to perish, or to suffer extremely, from cold.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inabstain
Forms: starved, starving

Examples

  • The sanctions will further starve Huawei of critical semiconductors.

  • The troubling issue is Google’s huge share of all online ad revenue, starving all kinds of other publishers and site owners and crushing the news business.

  • Previous actions had already restricted Huawei’s access to semiconductors, but the new order aims to further starve Huawei of chips by eliminating work-arounds that allowed it to buy chips designed by third parties.

  • Consequently, our sky is not uniformly bright to our eyes, and most of the cosmos is photon-starved compared to our everyday circumstances.

  • While researchers try to outdo one another on contrived benchmarks, one in every nine people in the world is starving.

  • Is it worse to let your family starve or profit off the carnage?

  • Still, the man did starve himself in the name of a same-sex marriage ban and it, unsurprisingly, earned him a lot of backlash.

  • This can explain why people who starve themselves can only lose minimal amounts of weight.

  • He had wanted me to go into insurance, sure I would starve as an artist.

  • In our surreal rebirth, it makes sense that as newsrooms starve elsewhere, New Orleans has a newspaper war.

  • If we set him adrift the poor child would starve—unless the cat got him.

  • Not so much, either; 'cause a chicken will stir round an' scratch a livin' out the ground, sooner 'n starve.

  • I have seen examples of such being freed, that is, turned out of doors to starve.

  • Here, as in the former instance, the last syllables rhyme correctly, and the objection is confined to starve and deserve.

  • They would starve on the skin of the Scotch men and are too well-mannered to attack that of the Scotch ladies.