starve
Significado (English)
- To die because of lack of food or of not eating.
- To be very hungry.
- To kill or attempt to kill by depriving of food.
- To destroy, make capitulate or at least make suffer by deprivation, notably of food.
- To deprive of nourishment or of some vital component.
- To deteriorate for want of any essential thing.
- To kill with cold; to (cause to) die from cold.
- (obsolete) To die; in later use especially to die slowly, waste away.
Synonyms
famish
die of hunger
be hungry
be starving
be famished
abstain
become hungry
go without food
half-starved
suffer want
thirst for
deprive … of
be short of food
go on a hunger strike
suffer privation
be cold
deprive of
Frecuencia
Pronúnciase como (IPA)
/stɑːv/
Etimoloxía (English)
In summary
From Middle English sterven, from Old English steorfan (“to die”), from Proto-Germanic *sterbaną (“to become stiff, die”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)terp- (“to lose strength, become numb, be motionless”); or from Proto-Indo-European *sterbʰ- (“to become stiff”), from *ster- (“stiff”); or a conflation of the aforementioned. Cognate with Scots sterve (“to die, perish”), Saterland Frisian stjerwa (“to die”), West Frisian stjerre (“to die”), Dutch sterven (“to die”), German Low German starven (“to die”), German sterben (“to die”), Icelandic stirfinn (“peevish, froward”), Albanian shterp (“sterile, unproductive, barren land”).
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