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The correct spelling is starve.
How to pronounce starve
/stɑːv/
verbIPA: /stɑːv/
Say it like: Sta-rve
The correct spelling is starve. To die; in later use especially to die slowly, waste away. For example: "Hey, ma, I'm starving! What's for dinner?"
Usage Examples
“Hey, ma, I'm starving! What's for dinner?”
“The patient's brain was starved of oxygen.”
“I was half starved waiting out in that wind.”
Definition
verb
- 1.To die; in later use especially to die slowly, waste away.
- 2.To die because of lack of food or of not eating.
- 3.To be very hungry.
- 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.
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