Starve
verb — past tense: starved ; past participle: starved ; present participle: starving ; 3rd person singular present starves
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- (INTRANSITIVE) (to die or suffer acutely from lack of starve food, to cause to do this, to suffer or cause to suffer for lack of some thing needed, (informal) to feel very I hungry or very cold, to suffer great need [with for]) ស្លាប់ដោយអត់បាយ, បង្អត់, បំបាត់ (មិនអោយមាន)
- 2.
- (បច្ចេកទេស) អត់ឃ្លាន, ត្រូវការខ្លាំង
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- (TRANSITIVE) (to cause to staved, to force by starving) starve the people ត្រូវការខ្លាំង
Example: If you do not eat, you will starve, I an starving (for food), be starved to death.starved for (love) ត្រូវការខ្លាំង
Example: A starved man.
ENGLISH MEANING
verb — past tense: starved ; past participle: starved ; present participle: starving ; 3rd person singular present starves
- 1.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To perish with hunger; to suffer extreme hunger or want; to be very indigent.
- 2.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To perish or die with cold.
- 3.
- (TRANSITIVE) To destroy with cold.
- 4.
- (TRANSITIVE) To kill with hunger; as, maliciously to starve a man is, in law, murder.
- 5.
- (TRANSITIVE) To distress or subdue by famine; as, to starvea garrison into a surrender.
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- (TRANSITIVE) To destroy by want of any kind; as, to starve plans by depriving them of proper light and air.
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- (TRANSITIVE) To deprive of force or vigor; to disable.
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- craving, famished, hungry, ravenous, voracious
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- full, gorged, sated, satiated, satisfied
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- To die, to perish