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starve

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starve /stɑːv $ stɑːrv/ ●●○ S3 verb  
1 HUNGRY/STARVING[intransitiveI] to suffer or die because you do not have enough to eat 挨饿;饿死
 Thousands of people will starve if food doesn’t reach the city.
如果食品不能运到那座城市,成千上万的人就要饿死。
 pictures of starving children
饥饿儿童的照片
 They’ll either die from the cold or starve to death (=die from lack of food).
他们要么会冻死,要么会饿死。
2 [transitiveT] to prevent someone from having enough food to live 使挨饿;使饿死
 The poor dog looked like it had been starved.
这条可怜的狗看起来一直在挨饿。
3 be starving  (also be starved American English)HUNGRY/STARVING to be very hungry 感觉很饿,饿极了
 You must be starving!
你肯定饿坏了!
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4starve somebody/something of something (also starve somebody/something for something American EnglishAmE) phrasal verbphr v FORCE somebody TO DO somethingto not give something that is needed 使某人/某物缺乏所需要的某物
be starved of something
 The schools are starved of funding.
这些学校缺乏资金。
be starved for something
 The poor kid’s just starved for attention.
这可怜的孩子非常缺少关怀。
nGrammar
Starve of/for is usually passive.
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5starve somebody ↔ out phrasal verbphr v to force someone to leave a place by preventing them from getting food 使〔某人〕挨饿而被迫离开〔某处〕
 If we can’t blast them out, we’ll starve them out!
如果不能把他们炸出来,我们就把他们饿出来!
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Origin starve
Old English steorfan to die
starve verbn GRAMMAR1
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TOEFL IELTS BNC: 7555 COCA: 7450
starve

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ADVERB | VERB + STARVE | PREPOSITION | PHRASES ADVERBslowly慢慢餓死literally活活餓死She refused food and literally starved herself to death.她拒絕進食,把自己活活餓死了。VERB + STARVEleave sb to任由某人捱餓He locked them in a room and left them to starve.他把他們鎖在一間屋子裏,任由他們捱餓。PREPOSITIONfor (usually figurative) 渴望⋯He is starving for attention.他渴望受到關注。of缺乏⋯The baby's brain had been starved of oxygen.那嬰兒的大腦缺氧了。PHRASESbe half starved餓得半死The poor cat was half starved.這隻可憐的貓已經餓得半死了。keep sb from starving使某人不捱餓320 tons of food are needed each month to keep the people from starving.每月需要 320 噸糧食,才能使人們不致捱餓。starve in the streets, starve on the streets在大街上忍飢捱餓Their policies will leave innocent children starving in the streets.他們的政策將讓無辜的兒童流落街頭,忍飢捱餓。starve to death餓死
TOEFL IELTS BNC: 7555 COCA: 7450
TOEFL IELTS BNC: 7555 COCA: 7450
starve
To kill a person or animal: kill, murder, strangle...

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