starve

动词 v.
中文释义
英 /stɑːv/    美 /stɑɹv/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To die because of lack of food or of not eating. intransitive
    — 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.
  2. To suffer severely because of lack of food or of not eating. intransitive
    — 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: […]
  3. To be very hungry. intransitive
    — 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. transitive
  5. To make suffer severely by depriving of food. transitive
  6. To force a combatant to submit or surrender by depriving of food, as in a targeted siege. transitive
    — If they refuse to surrender the garrison, we'll just starve them out.
  7. To force a population center to submit or surrender by depriving of food, as in sieges in international armed conflicts. dated,transitive
    — 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. transitive
    — The uncaring parents starved the child of love.
  9. To deteriorate for want of any essential thing. intransitive
  10. To kill with cold; to (cause to) die from cold. UK,transitive
    — I was half starved waiting out in that wind.
  11. To die; in later use especially to die slowly, waste away. intransitive,obsolete
    — 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.

词形变化

starves present,singular,third-person starving participle,present starved past starved participle,past starven obsolete,participle,past no-table-tags table-tags glossary inflection-template starve infinitive starve first-person,present,singular starved first-person,past,singular starve present,second-person,singular starvest archaic,present,second-person,singular starved past,second-person,singular starvedst archaic,past,second-person,singular starves present,singular,third-person starveth archaic,present,singular,third-person starved past,singular,third-person starve plural,present starved past,plural starve present,subjunctive starved past,subjunctive starve imperative,present - imperative,past starving participle,present starved participle,past starven archaic,participle,past sterve alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
bitstarve cash-starved feed a cold, starve a fever ha'penny starver hunger-starve nonstarved nonstarving overstarve penny starver prestarved semistarved sex-starved starvation starve-acre starved starvedly starve-gutted starveling starve out starver starve the bardies starve the beast starve the crows starve the lizards starving starving artist starvingly unstarved while the grass grows, the steed starves

词源

From Middle English sterven (“to die, perish”), from Old English steorfan (“to die, perish”), from Proto-West Germanic *sterban, from Proto-Germanic *sterbaną (“to become stiff, die”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)terp- (“to lose strength, become numb, be motionless”); or from Proto-Indo-European *sterbʰ- (“to become stiff”), from *ster- (“stiff”); or a conflation of the aforementioned. Cognate with Scots stairve, sterve (“to die, perish, starve”), Saterland Frisian stjerwa (“to die”), West Frisian stjerre (“to die”), Dutch sterven (“to die”), German Low German starven (“to die”), German sterben (“to die”), Icelandic stirfinn (“peevish, froward”), Albanian shterp (“sterile, unproductive, barren land”).
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