starve

Oznaczający

  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.

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Wymawiane jako (IPA)
/stɑːv/
Etymologia

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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