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Meaning of starve

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  starve
      v 1: be hungry; go without food; "Let's eat--I'm starving!"
           [syn: {starve}, {hunger}, {famish}] [ant: {be full}]
      2: die of food deprivation; "The political prisoners starved to
         death"; "Many famished in the countryside during the drought"
         [syn: {starve}, {famish}]
      3: deprive of food; "They starved the prisoners" [syn: {starve},
         {famish}] [ant: {feed}, {give}]
      4: have a craving, appetite, or great desire for [syn: {crave},
         {hunger}, {thirst}, {starve}, {lust}]
      5: deprive of a necessity and cause suffering; "he is starving
         her of love"; "The engine was starved of fuel"

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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