starve

starve englannista suomeksi

1. näännyttää

2. nälkiinnyttää, kuivua

3. olla nälässä, nälkiintyä

4. nääntyä, kuolla nälkään

5. kaivata kiihkeästi

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1. nääntyä

2. nääntyä (nälkään)">nääntyä (nälkään), nääntyä, kuolla nälkään">kuolla nälkään

3. kuolla nälkään">kuolla nälkään

4. näännyttää, nälkiinnyttää

5. näännyttää

starve englanniksi

1. To die; in later use especially to die slowly, waste away.

2. 1596, Edmund Spenser, ''The Faerie Queene'', IV.i.4:

noble ''Britomart'' / Released her, that else was like to starve, / Through cruell knife that her deare heart did kerue.

3. To die because of lack of food or of not eating.

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6. To be very hungry.

''Hey, ma, I'm starving! What's for dinner?''

7. To destroy, make capitulate or at least make suffer by deprivation, notably of food.

8. To deprive of nourishment or of some vital component.

''The uncaring parents starved the child of love.''

''The patient's brain was starved of oxygen.''

9. To deteriorate for want of any essential thing.

10. To kill with cold; to (cause to) die from cold.

''I was half starved waiting out in that wind.''

11. 1869 February, John Hartley, ''The original illuminated clock almanack'':

Wheniver he wor starved, he used to get th' seck o' coils ov his back, an' walk raand th' haase till he gat warm agean.

12. 1886, John Heywood, ''A Queer Supper'', 8:

One i' th' morning an' me starv'd to th' death wi' waitin' up.

13. 1898, J. Arthur Gibbs, ''A Cotswold Village'', 164:

'Tis these dreadful frostis that spiles everything, / 'Tis enough to sterve anybody.