Starve



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解释

GRE 红宝书

• v. 挨饿, 饿死
• ［英］ v. 挨饿, 饿死 ( suffer or die from great hunger)
• ［类］ suffocate : oxygen / starve : nutrients ( 窒息缺氧气 / 饥饿缺营养物) 反义词: sate ( 使饱足) ; surfeit ( 使过饱)
• ［例］ Thousands of cattle are starving.

Webster Collegiate

verb (starved; starving)

• Etymology: Middle English sterven to die, starve, from Old English steorfan to die; akin to Old High German sterban to die, and probably to Lithuanian starinti to stiffen — more at stare
• Date: 15th century
• intransitive verb
  • 1.
    • a. to perish from lack of food
    • b. to suffer extreme hunger
  • 2.
    • a. archaic to die of cold
    • b. British to suffer greatly from cold
  • 3. to suffer or perish from deprivation <starved for affection>
• transitive verb
  • 1.
    • a. to kill with hunger
    • b. to deprive of nourishment
    • c. to cause to capitulate by or as if by depriving of nourishment
  • 2. to destroy by or cause to suffer from deprivation
  • 3. archaic to kill with cold

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