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TOEFL IELTS BNC: 7555 COCA: 7450

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 挨餓；餓死
Thousands of people will starve if food doesn’t reach the city.
如果食品不能運到那座城市，成千上萬的人就要餓死。
pictures of starving children
饑餓兒童的照片
They’ll either die from the cold or starve to death (=die from lack of food).
他們要麽會凍死，要麽會餓死。
2  [transitiveT] to prevent someone from having enough food to live 使挨餓；使餓死
The poor dog looked like it had been starved.
這條可憐的狗看起來一直在挨餓。
3  be starving  (also be starved American English)HUNGRY/STARVING to be very hungry 感覺很餓，餓極了
You must be starving!
你肯定餓壞了！
Examples from the Corpus
be starving• I'm starving! When do we eat?• At noon he got up and put Lois's pumpkin on the porch and then realized he was starving.• She hadn't been able to stomach a great deal at breakfast, not after everything that had happened; now she was starving.• Up to half of the houses were boarded up in areas that were starving.• We were starving and reduced by disease.• The world is starving from hunger.• A water flea that is starving in a crowded pond is the victim not of food shortage but of competition.• People were starving, people were lying on the road.
4 starve 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.
這些學校缺乏資金。
be starved for something
The poor kid’s just starved for attention.
這可憐的孩子非常缺少關懷。
n Grammar
Starve of/for is usually passive.
Examples from the Corpus
starve of • The Sisters also try never to reject anyone in abject poverty, the hungry or starving.• They starve him of funds even for paying his soldiers.• The grandma of the family added a few details about how she had starved and three of her children had died.• People were starving because of Herbert Hoover.• Sealing food in an airtight jar starves the bacteria of oxygen and they are unable to reproduce.• So the first job for us is to starve them of possession; the second to use our ball intelligently.• The Commons' Environment Committee also accused the Government of starving the inspectorate of resources and staff.
5 starve somebody ↔ out phrasal verbphr v to force someone to leave a place by preventing them from getting food 使〔某人〕挨餓而被迫離開〔某處〕
If we can’t blast them out, we’ll starve them out!
如果不能把他們炸出來，我們就把他們餓出來！
Examples from the Corpus
starve out• A I am afraid you must be strong as regards starving your Oscars out.• Can the plaintiff hold out, or can we starve her out?
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starve• The prisoners were taken out into the desert and left to starve.• The world cannot stand by and watch while these people starve.• I was away in the Army and always starved for news for home.• And the ban will stay in place as long as the coastal strip is starved of much needed rain.• Reason that is disengaged and tightly regulated would starve other human faculties, they believed.• Unless these people get food in the next two weeks they will starve to death.• The entire population had starved to death.• Everyone around us was starving too.• In 1884, the crew of Young's ship nearly starved when they were blown off course.
starve to death• The young elephants must eat several times daily, or they will starve to death.• He then went off, leaving his rival to starve to death.• It is, of course, less honest than Spencer and denies that anyone will starve to death.• Rather, they lived, screaming and alone in the darkness until they eventually starved to death.• Some one like you is likely to lie down in the street and starve to death.• The entire population had starved to death.• Few of them starved to death: diseases take a deadlier toll of weakened bodies than undernourishment.• Some will starve to death, others will die of exposure, still others will be beaten or burned or tortured.
Origin starve
Old English steorfan “to die”
TOEFL IELTS BNC: 7555 COCA: 7450
starve

verb

ADVERB | VERB + STARVE | PREPOSITION | PHRASES ADVERB➤slowly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 + STARVE➤leave 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。PREPOSITION➤for (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。PHRASES➤be 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 die or to be killed: die, pass away, suffocate...
To kill a person or animal: kill, murder, strangle...

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