Starve

(verb.) die of food deprivation; 'The political prisoners starved to death'; 'Many famished in the countryside during the drought'.

(verb.) deprive of food; 'They starved the prisoners'.

(verb.) deprive of a necessity and cause suffering; 'he is starving her of love'; 'The engine was starved of fuel'.

(verb.) be hungry; go without food; 'Let's eat--I'm starving!'.

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• I would starve rather than do it! 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The slave-owner can whip his refractory slave to death,--the capitalist can starve him to death. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for, _At the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter_. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• She will have nothing to eat: you will starve her, observed Adele. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• A man can't starve; at least I can't. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Except when game is swarming, hunting communities must not keep together in large bodies or they will starve. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Then I became a young vagabond; and instead of one old woman knocking me about and starving me, everybody of all ages knocked me about and starved me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• I have starved her and the boy too; and now I am weak and helpless, Jem, she'll murder me for it; I know she will. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• And the little pinched nose of his; so thin was it that it looked half starved. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• She paid scot and she paid lot when she had money to pay; she worked when she could, and she starved when she must. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• He was a man of such rigid refinement, that he would have starved rather than have dined without a white neckcloth. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Rather than be a companion, I would have made shirts and starved. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• They say that there are some families almost starving to death in Briarfield. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Then I became a young vagabond; and instead of one old woman knocking me about and starving me, everybody of all ages knocked me about and starved me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• If he is starving, or if he is satiated with music for the time being, he will naturally judge food to have the greater worth. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• I am a friend of the red men of Barsoom and I am starving. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• Take this as a warning from men that are starving, and have starving wives and children to go home to when they have done this deed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Meantime, the afternoon advanced, while I thus wandered about like a lost and starving dog. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Horsfall starves him; you saw how thin he was. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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