starvest

[stɑ?v]
vi.
挨餓，饑餓；餓得難受：
Have you got any food in your house? I'm starving!
我餓壞了，你家有什么吃的嗎?
餓死：
Many people starved to death in the famine.
許多人餓死于此次饑荒。
渴望，迫切希望(常與for連用)：
He starved for meeting her once again.
他渴望能再見她一面。
The child was starving for affection.
小孩子渴望著父母的慈愛。
經受極端貧困：
Having survived starvation , we're beginning to live happily.
經過了赤貧之后，我們開始了幸福的生活。
[主英國方言、古語]挨凍；凍死
[廢語]死亡
vt.
使饑餓；使餓死：
Many children in the orphanage were starved often.
孤兒院中的孩子們常常挨餓。
(以饑餓)迫使，強迫：
to starve a besieged garrison into surrender
以饑餓迫使被圍守軍投降
使極度缺乏，使急需；使渴望：
to starve others' comprehension
渴望他人的理解
He died of starving oxygen but not from gunfire.
他死于缺氧窒息而非槍擊。
用饑餓法治療(疾病)：
to starve someone for his excessive appetite
以饑餓療法治療貪食癥
用切斷火源的方法撲滅(火)
[英國方言、古語]使挨凍；使凍死
近義詞:
hungry
變形：
vi.
starved
. starving