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starve

(intransitive) To be very hungry.

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#1·Apr 27, 2026UK

(intransitive) To be very hungry.

..., and the little half-starved, stunted girl of twelve, with her brown arms and steady, unerring aim, will hammer out half a bundle, IS. 6½d.
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  • “Nearly all food packaging. I honestly believe that when I'm old and have lost hand strength and eyesight, I'm going to starve to death because I can't "peel here" or "remove tab before lifting lid".”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “finally all the cops starve to death”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “good morning friends in my phone! it was a binge, but it feels like it was (late night eating) and i feel absolutely horrific. need coffee and to fucking starve. creating a meal for today and fucking sticking with it. no excuses. ignore the hunger.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “um actually i cant kill myself bcuz i want to eat yummy food with my fiance and play softball and enjoy a happy relationship but i just have to starve myself until then ig that's so fucking lame i should just be allowed to off myself anyways!!”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “I deserve to starve, I deserve to feel pain”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
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UK
#2·Apr 27, 2026UK

(intransitive) To suffer severely because of lack of food or of not eating.

"When all of you starve to death, Shasta, don't come crying to me, that's all."
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  • “30% of the world's nitrogen fertilizer supply is gone. People will starve, revolution, large scale death. The money is the least of it.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “About to watch America starve in the streets in real time.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “I hope the financial system fails is the same as saying he hopes babies starve. So sick of paying taxes to support his evil.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “Wes in his Triumphant skin. Seems that i always draw him whenever i fall back into the Don't Starve rabbit hole. #dontstarve #dontstarvewes”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “You see someone in a supermarket picking stuff up, reading the ingredients, sighing, and putting it back? Probably gluten. It’s really bad in France. I starve in that place. Seriously. World capital of hypoglycaemia for the gluten intolerant.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
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UK
#3·Apr 27, 2026UK

(intransitive) To die because of lack of food or of not eating.

Origin: From , from , from , from , from ; or from , from *ster-; or a conflation of the aforementioned. Cognate with , sterve, , , , , , ,. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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  • “Like literally we could take half the wealth from Musk, Bezos, Trump and Thiel and end world hunger. We could just do that. Right now. But if you advocate for that, you're the terrorist and not the men who sit and laugh as millions of people starve to death.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
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