starve

starve
verb

[no obj.](of a person or animal) suffer severely or die from hunger
（人，动物）挨饿；饿死
she left her animals to starve.
她使得她的动物挨饿。
seven million starved to death.
饿死的有七百万人。
[as adj. starving]the world's starving children.
世界上处于饥饿中的孩子。
■[with obj.] cause (a person or animal) to suffer severely or die from hunger
使挨饿；使饿死
for a while she had considered starving herself.
有一段时间她曾想饿死自己。
■(be starving 或 starved)(informal)feel very hungry
(非正式)饿极，饿得慌
I don't know about you, but I'm starving.
我不知道你怎么样，但是我是饿坏了。
■(starve someone out 或 into)force someone out of (a place) or into (a specified state) by stopping supplies of food
以饥饿迫使就范，以饥饿强迫
the Royalists were starved out after eleven days.
在经过11天以后，由于饥饿保皇党人被迫就范。
German U-boats hoping to starve Britain into submission.
希望以饥饿来迫使英国屈服的德国潜艇。
■[with obj.](usu. be starved of 或美 for)deprive of something necessary
使匮乏，使急需
the arts are being starved of funds.
那些艺术现在急需资金。
(archaic)be freezing cold
(古)处于严寒之中
pull down that window for we are perfectly starving here.
请把窗户拉下来，因为我们这里非常冷。

派生
starvation
noun
语源

Old English steorfan 'to die', of Germanic origin, probably from a base meaning 'be rigid' (compare with stare); related to Dutch sterven and German sterben

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