Definition of "starve" []

• To suffer or die from extreme or prolonged lack of food. (verb-intransitive)
• Informal To be hungry. (verb-intransitive)
• To suffer from deprivation. (verb-intransitive)
• Archaic To suffer or die from cold. (verb-intransitive)
• To cause to starve. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Today's "debt crisis" is the culmination of the long-term "starve the beast" strategy from an organized corporate-conservative movement."
• "Seeing children starve is terrible, I guess we all saw those images f the starving kids in Africa."
• "Seeing children starve is terrible, I guess we all saw those images of the starving kids in Africa."