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Starved Starving Starve People Food Death Verb Suffer

word starve
definition
verb
If people starve, they suffer greatly from lack of food which sometimes leads to their death .
A number of the prisoners we saw are starving.
In the 1930s, millions of Ukrainians starved to death or were deported.
Getting food to starving people does nothing to stop the war.
To starve someone means not to give them any food.
They harassed and starved the Native people.
Judy decided I was starving myself.
If a person or thing is starved of something that they need, they are suffering because they are not getting enough of it.
The electricity industry is not the only one to have been starved of investment.
...companies in danger of being starved of capital by their banks.
...an audience hungry for American films and long starved of choice.
inflections starvesstarvingstarved
cefr-level B2

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