starve

== English == === Etymology === 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”). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /stɑːv/ (General American) IPA(key): /stɑɹv/ Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)v Hyphenation: starve === Verb === starve (third-person singular simple present starves, present participle starving, simple past starved, past participle starved or (obsolete) starven) (intransitive) To die because of lack of food or of not eating. (intransitive) To suffer severely because of lack of food or of not eating. (intransitive) To be very hungry. (transitive) To kill or attempt to kill by depriving of food. (transitive) To make suffer severely by depriving of food. Synonym: famish (transitive) To force a combatant to submit or surrender by depriving of food, as in a targeted siege. (transitive, dated) To force a population center to submit or surrender by depriving of food, as in sieges in international armed conflicts. (transitive) To deprive of nourishment or of some vital component. (intransitive) To deteriorate for want of any essential thing. (transitive, UK, especially Yorkshire and Lancashire) To kill with cold; to (cause to) die from cold. (intransitive, obsolete) To die; in later use especially to die slowly, waste away. ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Alternative forms ==== sterve (obsolete) ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === “starve”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “starve, v.”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN. === Anagrams === averts, ravest, tarves, traves, vaster, versta == Norwegian Bokmål == === Etymology === Inherited from Old Norse starfa (“to exert oneself”). Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk starve (“to work; struggle”) and Icelandic starfa (“to work”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈstarʋə/ Rhymes: -arʋə Hyphenation: star‧ve === Verb === starve (passive starves, imperative starv, present tense starver, simple past starva or starvet, past participle har starva or har starvet, present participle starvende, verbal noun starving) (intransitive, dialectal) to work Synonyms: arbeide, jobbe (dialectal) to struggle, to toil Synonyms: slite, streve å starve av ― to die, to pass away ==== Synonyms ==== trale (“to work, toil”) === References === “starve” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB). === Anagrams === avtres, sarvet, staver, stavre, streva, svaret, svarte, sverta, traves, varest, vartes, vatres