Meaning

1. To die because of lack of food or of not eating.
2. To be very hungry.
3. To kill or attempt to kill by depriving of food.
4. To destroy, make capitulate or at least make suffer by deprivation, notably of food.
5. To deprive of nourishment or of some vital component.
6. To deteriorate for want of any essential thing.
7. To kill with cold; to (cause to) die from cold.
8. (obsolete) To die; in later use especially to die slowly, waste away.