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:
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.
When the aid stopped, thousands of people simply starved to death.
I don't mind her going on a sensible diet just as long as she doesn't starve herself.
At the time of the original composition he could not have been starved for her bosom, since he had not yet encountered her.
A given amount of blood adds more hours to the life of a highly starved bat than to a less starved one.
Radio broadcasters have to be content with a low status, and the medium has been starved of funds.
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