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starve

/stɑɹv/ 动词 B2

中文: 饿死

  1. To die because of lack of food or of not eating. (intransitive)
  2. To suffer severely because of lack of food or of not eating. (intransitive) · I was starving, so I wrote S.O.S. on the desert island using rocks.
  3. To be very hungry. (intransitive) · Can we go to a restaurant now? I'm starving!
  4. To kill or attempt to kill by depriving of food. (transitive)
  5. To make suffer severely by depriving of food. (transitive)
  6. To force a combatant to submit or surrender by depriving of food, as in a targeted siege. (transitive) · If they refuse to surrender the garrison, we'll just starve them out.
  7. To force a population center to submit or surrender by depriving of food, as in sieges in international armed conflicts. (dated, transitive)
  8. To deprive of nourishment or of some vital component. (transitive) · The uncaring parents starved the child of love.· The patient’s brain was starved of oxygen.

复数 starve · He/she/it starves · 过去式 starved · 过去分词 starved · -ing形式 starving

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动词形式

原形
starve
He/she/it
starves
过去式
starved
过去分词
starved
-ing形式
starving

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Now get hence, or by the Sambhur that I killed (I eat no starved cattle), back thou goest to thy mother, burned beast of the jungle, lamer than ever thou camest into the world!
《The Jungle Book》,第6页 · B2
So if I am starved or killed here, it will be all my own fault.
《The Jungle Book》,第50页 · B2
What a starved, unloved life she had had--a life of drudgery and poverty and neglect; for Marilla was shrewd enough to read between the lines of Anne’s history and divine the truth.
《Anne of Green Gables》,第53页 · C1
“When did you ever hear of me starving people into good behavior?” demanded Marilla indignantly.
《Anne of Green Gables》,第71页 · C1

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