starve

1. (intransitive) To die because of lack of food or of not eating.Examples: "During the Cultural Revolution I was exiled to Xincai County in Henan Province. There, 36 percent of the people starved to death in the early 1960s."; ""When all of you starve to death, Shasta, don't come crying to me, that's all.""intransitive

2. (intransitive) To suffer severely because of lack of food or of not eating.Examples: "Ah (ſaid the Ape as ſighing vvondrous ſad) / Its an hard caſe, vvhen men of good deſeruing / Muſt either driuen be perforce to ſteruing, / Or asked for their pas by euerie ſquib: […]"; "..., and the little half-starved, stunted girl of twelve, with her brown arms and steady, unerring aim, will hammer out half a bundle, IS. 6½d."intransitive

3. (intransitive) To be very hungry.Examples: "I was starving so I wrote S.O.S. on the desert island using rocks."intransitive

4. (transitive) To kill or attempt to kill by depriving of food.transitive

5. (transitive) To make suffer severely by depriving of food.Synonyms: famishtransitive

6. (transitive) To force a combatant to submit or surrender by depriving of food, as in a targeted siege.Examples: "If they refuse to surrender the garrison, we'll just starve them out."transitive