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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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