- 1
To suffer, or even die, from not having enough food over a long time. Very commonly used in a much lighter, informal way too, just to mean "very hungry" — "I'm starving!" is an , not literal. It can also mean to be badly lacking something you need, not just food — "starved for attention," "starved of cash."
餓死；（口語）超餓、快餓死了（誇飾用法）；缺乏（something）
組成From an old English word that originally just meant "to die" in general; it later narrowed to mean dying specifically from lack of food.
同家族的字
- starvationstarvation is the state that comes from starving for a long time
原始詞典資料11 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
starveverb/stɑːv/
- 1
To die because of lack of food or of not eating.
- 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."
- 2
To suffer severely because of lack of food or of not eating.
- 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.
- 3
To be very hungry.
- I was starving so I wrote S.O.S. on the desert island using rocks.
- 4
To kill or attempt to kill by depriving of food.
- 5
To make suffer severely by depriving of food.
- 6
To force a combatant to submit or surrender by depriving of food, as in a targeted siege.
- If they refuse to surrender the garrison, we'll just starve them out.
- 7
datedTo force a population center to submit or surrender by depriving of food, as in sieges in international armed conflicts.
- Some historians have since classified the Siege of Leningrad as a genocide due to the intentional destruction of the city and the systematic starvation of its civilian population.
- 8
To deprive of nourishment or of some vital component.
- The uncaring parents starved the child of love.
- The patient’s brain was starved of oxygen.
另外 3 個記錄的用法
- 9
To deteriorate for want of any essential thing.
- 10
To kill with cold; to (cause to) die from cold.
- I was half starved waiting out in that wind.
- Wheniver he wor starved, he used to get th' seck o' coils ov his back, an' walk raand th' haase till he gat warm agean.
- 11
obsoleteTo die; in later use especially to die slowly, waste away.
- Seuen moneths he ſo her kept in bitter ſmart, / Becauſe his ſinfull luſt ſhe would not ſerue, / Vntill ſuch time as noble Britomart / Releaſed her, that elſe was like to ſterue / Through cruell knife that her deare heart did kerue.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。