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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Starve \Starve\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Starved}; p. pr & vb n.
{Starving}.] [OE. sterven to die, AS steorfan akin to D.
sterven, G. sterben, OHG. sterban Icel. starf labor, toil.]
1. To die; to perish. [Obs., except in the sense of perishing
with cold or hunger.] --Lydgate.
In hot coals he hath himself raked . . . Thus
starved this worthy mighty Hercules. --Chaucer.
2. To perish with hunger; to suffer extreme hunger or want
to be very indigent.
Sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed. --Pope.
3. To perish or die with cold. --Spenser.
Have I seen the naked starve for cold? --Sandys.
Starving with cold as well as hunger. --W. Irving.
Note: In this sense still common in England, but rarely used
of the United States.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
starving
adj : suffering from lack of food [syn: {starved}]
n : the act of starving; "they were charged with the starvation
of children in their care" [syn: {starvation}]
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