starve
morir de hambre
definition
verb
she left her animals to starve
(of a person or animal) suffer severely or die from hunger.
pull down that window for we are perfectly starving here
be freezing cold.
translation of 'starve'
verb
morir de hambre,
privar de comida,
hacer morir de hambre,
padecer hambre
example
German U-boats hoping to 'starve' Britain into submission
she left her animals to 'starve'
German U-boats hoping to 'starve' Britain into submission
But we could 'starve' the beast to death by ceasing to provide its main source of food: our money.
Sure, you deal crack on the side, you beat your wife, you 'starve' your kids, but you're straight and you go to church, so we're here to save you.
If it is wrong to whip a dog or 'starve' a horse or bait bears for sport or grossly abuse farm animals, it is wrong for all people in every place.
Then we have the so called pet lovers who 'starve' the family pet dog till his skeletal bone structure protrudes through its limp flesh.
I cannot trust a man who will 'starve' children to death and think nothing of it.
Since you, his loving owner, have the power to either feed or 'starve' your pet, your dog looks to you as its only supplier of food.
The primary objective of this campaign is to 'starve' terrorists of essential funding and technical support…
she left her animals to 'starve'
It sounds, through the distribution of land and the distribution of food, like the government is trying to hold on to control and 'starve' its enemies into submission.
Mullan speaks about his children with affection, something he 'was starved of' by his own father, Charles.
Their remaining options were sleeping on the streets, prostitution, crime and 'starvation' .
The nuclear submarine lobby, known in the Navy as the ‘Black Mafia’, went ruthlessly for Trident, even though it might mean that the rest of the Navy 'was starved of' funds.
‘We will root them out and 'starve them out' ,’ Rumsfeld said, just before closing a news conference with a ringing declaration: ‘We are determined not to be terrorized.’
But it was the Indian scholars themselves making the fuss, expressing concern that research institutes back in Bharat were and are 'being starved of' much-needed funds.
Wavell believed that he was 'being starved of' the necessary reinforcements which he believed he needed and he resigned in February 1942.
She wished that when she opened her eyes, there would be a plate of steaming waffles next to her… because she was ravenously 'starving' .
I was ravenously 'starving' all the time and I have nothing but admiration for people who manage this lifestyle.
He was known as a skilful printer and darkroom operative, even though his sight was severely damaged after he was 'starved' by his captors in the Second World War.
Dentistry is perhaps an even better example - only when the NHS dentistry system 'was starved of' funds did we see a major change to private treatment and insurance - and even there you actually had to pay to get most NHS treatment anyway.
He had not been 'starving' ; he had only been hungry.
Vets estimated the dog, which had ripped the house apart in its frantic search for food, 'starved' to death over eight weeks.
Firefighters were called in after fears grew that the black cats - who are yet to open their eyes - might have 'starved' to death.
What if Germany's U-boats had won the Battle of the Atlantic and 'starved' Britain into submission?
Battling granny Dot Kelly, from Farnworth, today said that British Coal tried to ‘ 'starve her out' ’ of her sit-in 1,800 ft. below ground at closure threatened Parkside pit.
There is no cause to regret the passing of that system - millions of peasants 'starved' to death - and those who now point to the absence of school fees in that period are at any rate one-sided.
He's 'starved' them of food and equipment, and he brutally purges their officers with an almost banal regularity.
More often than not we went hungry anyway, but then they attempted to 'starve us out' .
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