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源自中古英語 sterven,源自古英語 steorfan (),源自原始日耳曼語 *sterbaną (僵硬;死),源自原始印歐語 *(s)terp- (弱,麻),或原始印歐語 *sterbʰ- (僵硬),源自*ster- (),或者上述詞的異文合併。同源詞包括低地蘇格蘭語 sterve (死,消失)薩特弗里斯蘭語 stjerwa ()西弗里斯蘭語 stjerre ()荷蘭語 sterven ()德國低地德語 starven ()德語 sterben ()冰島語 stirfinn (脾氣差的;剛愎的)阿爾巴尼亞語 shterp (貧瘠的;貧瘠的土地)

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starve (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 starves,現在分詞 starving,過去式 starved,過去分詞 starved (弃用) starven)

  1. (不及物) 餓死
    • 1990, Chen Yizi (陳一諮)(被引), Children of the Dragon: The Story of Tiananmen Square[1], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC48:
      During the Cultural Revolution I was exiled to Xincai County in Henan Province. There, 36 percent of the people starved to death in the early 1960s.
      (請為本引文添加中文翻譯
    • 2007, Lisa Wingate, A Thousand Voices,第 76 頁:
      "When all of you starve to death, Shasta, don't come crying to me, that's all."
      (請為本引文添加中文翻譯
  2. (不及物) 非常,餓得要死
    Hey, ma, I'm starving! What's for dinner?
    喂,老媽,我要餓死了!晚飯吃啥?
  3. (及物) (尤指通過斷糧摧毀,使...屈服;使...餓死
    近義詞:famish
  4. (及物) 剝奪 糧食或必需物品
    The uncaring parents starved the child of love.
    冷漠的父母剝奪了孩子應得的愛。
    The patient's brain was starved of oxygen.
    患者的腦部供氧不足。
  5. (不及物) (因缺乏某物而)惡化,情況變差
  6. (及物英國特別用於約克郡蘭開夏) 使...凍死
    I was half starved waiting out in that wind.
    我在那風裡等人,被凍了個半死。
    • 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.
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    • 1886, A Queer Supper, John Heywood, section 8:
      One i' th' morning an' me starv'd to th' death wi' waitin' up.
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    • 1898, J. Arthur Gibbs, 「When the May-Fly is Up」, 出自 A Cotswold village; or, Country Life & Pursuits in Gloucestershire, London: John Murray, →OCLC164:
      Sometimes he remarks, “ ’Tis these dreadful frostis that spiles everything. ’Tis enough to sterve anybody.”
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  7. (不及物棄用) 死亡;(晚期用法中指)慢慢死去

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