Hypertext Webster Gateway: "starving"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Starve \Starve\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Starved}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Starving}.] [OE. sterven to die, AS. steorfan; akin to D.
sterven, G. sterben, OHG. sterban, Icel. starf labor, toil.]
1. To die; to perish. [Obs., except in the sense of perishing
with cold or hunger.] --Lydgate.

In hot coals he hath himself raked . . . Thus
starved this worthy mighty Hercules. --Chaucer.

2. To perish with hunger; to suffer extreme hunger or want;
to be very indigent.

Sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed. --Pope.

3. To perish or die with cold. --Spenser.

Have I seen the naked starve for cold? --Sandys.

Starving with cold as well as hunger. --W. Irving.

Note: In this sense, still common in England, but rarely used
of the United States.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

starving
adj : suffering from lack of food [syn: {starved}]
n : the act of starving; "they were charged with the starvation
of children in their care" [syn: {starvation}]


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