0 to (cause someone to) become very weak or die because there is not enough food to eat: --
From talking to former prisoners in the camps, an obvious conclusion is that they have been starved.
Whole communities starved to death during the long drought.
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: --
be starved of/for cash/funds/investment The company was starved of cash and failed to compete worldwide.
starve sth of sth His predecessor in the job had starved the business of capital investment.
All experimental insects were starved for 24 h prior to the experiment.
The flies were five days old and had been starved for 24 h before the gels were introduced in to the cages.
Cells were starved overnight in media containing 1% serum before each cell experiment.
He is reduced to basic and pitiable human functions: a figure alone, defecating, starving, having a nightmare, crying.
The third worried that he was starving his wife to death by not trying hard enough to find food that she wanted to eat.
More significantly, neither is there evidence to suggest that they were starving dramatic authors or actors.
Predators were starved for 10 days before each experiment.
Copepods were starved the day before experimental infection with tapeworms.
