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 ]

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 ]