Betekenis van starve In het Nederlands

• 0 to (cause someone to) become very weak or die because there is not enough food to eat:

  • Whole communities starved to death during the long drought.

  • From talking to former prisoners in the camps, an obvious conclusion is that they have been starved.

• 1 to become weak or die because there is not enough food to eat:

  • [ I ] Many people could starve because of the drought.

  • [ I ] I’m starved because I missed lunch today.

• 2 if a company, etc. is starved of something necessary or good, it does not receive enough of it:

  • starve sth of sth His predecessor in the job had starved the business of capital investment.

  • be starved of/for cash/funds/investment The company was starved of cash and failed to compete worldwide.