starve
verbVerb Forms
Idioms Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they starve | |
| he / she / it starves | |
| past simple starved | |
| past participle starved | |
| -ing form starving |
- [intransitive, transitive]
to suffer or die because you do not have enough food to eat; to make somebody suffer or die in this way （使）挨餓，餓死 The animals were left to starve to death. 那些動物只能等着餓死。 pictures of starving children 展示饑餓兒童的圖片 The new job doesn't pay as much but we won't starve! 新工作的工資沒有過去多，不過我們不至於挨餓！ - starve somebody/yourself
She's starving herself to try to lose weight. 她試圖通過節食來減肥。 Many of the prisoners looked half starved. 許多囚犯看起來餓得半死。
Extra ExamplesTopics Social issuesb2He locked them in a room and left them to starve. 他把他們鎖在一間屋子裏，任由他們捱餓。 She refused food and literally starved herself to death. 她拒絕進食，把自己活活餓死了。 The poor cat was half starved. 這只可憐的貓已經餓得半死了。 Their policies will leave innocent children starving in the streets. 他們的政策將讓無辜的兒童流落街頭，忍饑捱餓。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- slowly
- literally
- leave somebody to
- for
- of
- be half starved
- keep somebody from starving
- starve in the streets
- …
- -starved
(in adjectives 構成形容詞 not having something that you need 缺乏…的；急需…的 supply-starved rebels 補給匮乏的反叛者
Word OriginOld English steorfan ‘to die’, of Germanic origin, probably from a base meaning ‘be rigid’ (compare with stare); related to Dutch sterven and German sterben.
Idioms
be starving (for something)
(also be starved especially in North American English)
- (informal)
to feel very hungry 餓得很