STARVE | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

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We can't stand by while millions of people starve.
When the aid stopped , thousands of people simply starved to death .
We can't leave these people to starve.
I don't mind her going on a sensible diet just as long as she doesn't starve herself.
She had to starve for 24 hours before the treatment .

(Definition of starve from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

starve | American Dictionary

starve

verb [ I/T ]

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If you say you are starving, you want to eat :

[ I ] I’m starved because I missed lunch today.

noun [ U ] us

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The animals died of starvation.

(Definition of starve from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

starve

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if a company , etc. is starved of something necessary or good, it does not receive enough of it:

starve sth of sth His predecessor in the job had starved the business of capital investment .

be starved of/for cash/funds/investment The company was starved of cash and failed to compete worldwide .

suffix

This is not an industry which is capital-starved.

See also

cash-starved

the principle of treating all people the same, and not being influenced by a person's sex, race, religion, etc.