(n) the act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine, Syn. starving, Example:the besiegers used starvation to induce surrender; they were charged with the starvation of children in their care

starvation acidosis

(n) acidosis in which the acidity results from lack of food which leads to fat catabolism which in turn releases acidic ketone bodies

starve

(v) be hungry; go without food, Syn. hunger, famish, Ant. be full, Example:Let's eat--I'm starving!

starve

(v) die of food deprivation, Syn. famish, Example:The political prisoners starved to death; Many famished in the countryside during the drought

starve

(v) deprive of food, Syn. famish, Ant. feed, Example:They starved the prisoners

starve

(v) deprive of a necessity and cause suffering, Example:he is starving her of love; The engine was starved of fuel

starved aster

(n) a variety of aster, Syn. calico aster

starveling

(n) someone who is starving (or being starved)

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53 Collaborative International Dictionary (GCIDE)

Starvation

n. The act of starving, or the state of being starved. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This word was first used, according to Horace Walpole, by Henry Dundas, the first Lord Melville, in a speech on American affairs in 1775, which obtained for him the nickname of Starvation Dundas.
“Starvation, we are also told, belongs to the class of 'vile compounds' from being a mongrel; as if English were not full of mongrels, and as if it would not be in distressing straits without them.” Fitzed. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

Starve

v. t. 1. To destroy with cold. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

From beds of raging fire, to starve in ice
Their soft ethereal warmth. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To kill with hunger; as, maliciously to starve a man is, in law, murder. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To distress or subdue by famine; as, to starve a garrison into a surrender. [ 1913 Webster ]

Attalus endeavored to starve Italy by stopping their convoy of provisions from Africa. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To destroy by want of any kind; as, to starve plants by depriving them of proper light and air. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To deprive of force or vigor; to disable. [ 1913 Webster ]

The pens of historians, writing thereof, seemed starved for matter in an age so fruitful of memorable actions. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

The powers of their minds are starved by disuse. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Starve

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Starved p. pr. & vb. n. Starving. ] [ OE. sterven to die, AS. steorfan; akin to D. sterven, G. sterben, OHG. sterban, Icel. starf labor, toil. ] 1. To die; to perish. [ Obs., except in the sense of perishing with cold or hunger. ] Lydgate. [ 1913 Webster ]

In hot coals he hath himself raked . . .
Thus starved this worthy mighty Hercules. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To perish with hunger; to suffer extreme hunger or want; to be very indigent. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To perish or die with cold. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Have I seen the naked starve for cold? Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ]

Starving with cold as well as hunger. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In this sense, still common in England, but rarely used in the United States. [ 1913 Webster ]

Starvedly

adv. In the condition of one starved or starving; parsimoniously. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some boasting housekeeper which keepth open doors for one day, . . . and lives starvedly all the year after. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

Starveling

n. [ Starve + -ling. ] One who, or that which, pines from lack of food, or nutriment. [ 1913 Webster ]

Old Sir John hangs with me, and thou knowest he is no starveling. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Starveling

a. Hungry; lean; pining with want. [ 1913 Webster ]

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