starve

B2 CET-4 Oxf 5000 高中 FREQ #6152 ★★☆☆☆

v. (使)饿死, (使)挨饿

发音

UK /stɑːv/
US /stɑɹv/

词形变化

starved starven starves 三单 starves starveth starving starving 现在分词 starved 过去式 starved 过去分词 starven 过去式 starven 过去分词 starvest starvedst 过去式 starveth 三单 starved 复数

别名

sterve

教材释义与例句

动词

饿死；挨饿；渴望

to suffer or die because you do not have enough to eat

动词

使饿死；使挨饿

Thousands of people will starve if food doesn't reach the city.

如果食品不能运到那座城市，成千上万的人就要饿死。

pictures of starving children

饥饿儿童的照片

They'll either die from the cold or starve to death (= die from lack of food ) .

他们要么会冻死，要么会饿死。

释义与例句

v. B2 Oxf 5000
  1. 1.

    To die because of lack of food or of not eating.

    饿死

    不及物
  2. 2.

    To suffer severely because of lack of food or of not eating.

    不及物
  3. 3.

    To be very hungry.

    饿死

    不及物

    I was starving so I wrote S.O.S. on the desert island using rocks.

  4. 4.

    To kill or attempt to kill by depriving of food.

    及物
  5. 5.

    To make suffer severely by depriving of food.

    及物
  6. 6.

    To force a combatant to submit or surrender by depriving of food, as in a targeted siege.

    及物

    If they refuse to surrender the garrison, we'll just starve them out.

  7. 7.

    To force a population center to submit or surrender by depriving of food, as in sieges in international armed conflicts.

    过时 及物

    Some historians have since classified the Siege of Leningrad as a genocide due to the intentional destruction of the city and the systematic starvation of its civilian population.

  8. 8.

    To deprive of nourishment or of some vital component.

    及物

    The uncaring parents starved the child of love.

    The patient’s brain was starved of oxygen.

  9. 9.

    To deteriorate for want of any essential thing.

    不及物
  10. 10.

    To kill with cold; to (cause to) die from cold.

    及物

    I was half starved waiting out in that wind.

  11. 11.

    To die; in later use especially to die slowly, waste away.

    不及物 废旧

词汇关系

动词

同义词 5

hunger lust thirst crave famish

反义词 1

feed

上位词 10

go want die hurt pass suffer desire exit choke perish

近义相关 1

famish

相关短语

starve acre starve the beast feed a cold, starve a fever

词源

From Middle English sterven (“to die, perish”), from Old English steorfan (“to die, perish”), from Proto-West Germanic *sterban, from Proto-Germanic *sterbaną (“to become stiff, die”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)terp- (“to lose strength, become numb, be motionless”); or from Proto-Indo-European *sterbʰ- (“to become stiff”), from *ster- (“stiff”); or a conflation of the aforementioned. Cognate with Scots stairve, sterve (“to die, perish, starve”), Saterland Frisian stjerwa (“to die”), West Frisian stjerre (“to die”), Dutch sterven (“to die”), German Low German starven (“to die”), German sterben (“to die”), Icelandic stirfinn (“peevish, froward”), Albanian shterp (“sterile, unproductive, barren land”).

来源：wiktionary