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 ]

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 ]

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 ]