starve

[stɑ:v]

vi.挨饿, 受饿, 极度匮乏
vt.使挨饿, 使饿死

vi.

1. 饿死

The explorers starved to death in the desert.

探险者们在沙漠中饿死了。

2. 挨饿

3. 【口】饿得慌

Let's get something to eat; I'm starving.

我们吃点东西吧; 我饿坏了。

4. 渴望; 极需要[(+for)][+to-v]

The plants are starving for water.

这些植物极需要水。

vt.

1. 使饿死, 使挨饿

2. 以饥饿迫使[(+into)]

They starved the enemy into submission.

他们切断敌军粮援而迫其投降。

3. 使匮乏, 使急需[H][(+of)]

4. 以节食治疗

She's starving herself trying to lose weight.

她用节食疗法试图减肥。

词形变化

动词过去式: starved | 动词过去分词: starved | 动词现在分词: starving | 动词第三人称单数: starves |

词义辨析

同义:

vt.vi.(使)挨饿; 渴求

hunger  crave  

同义参见:

fast  famish  

反义:

vi.vt.(使)饿死; 挨饿

satiate  

反义参见:

sate  

英英释义

动词 starve:

be hungry; go without food

同义词：hunger, famish

die of food deprivation

同义词：famish

deprive of food

同义词：famish

have a craving, appetite, or great desire for

同义词：crave, hunger, thirst, lust

deprive of a necessity and cause suffering

短语词组

starve for

1. 渴望

They starve for knowledge.

他们渴望获得知识。

补充

starvestarve英:[stɑ:v] 美:[stɑrv]vt. & vi.1.(使)挨饿, 饥饿Because there is no food, the people are starving.由于没有食品, 所以人们在挨饿。She's starving herself, trying to lose weight.她在饿肚子减肥。I'm starved very much now because I have had nothing at all today.我现在饿极了, 因为我今天什么也没吃。

例句

1. People were literally starving.人们真的要饿死了。 2. When the rescuers arrived, the survivors were starving.救援人员到达时, 幸存者们已经饿得不行了。 3. The prison guards starved their prisoners.狱警让犯人挨饿。 4. Have you got any food in your house? I'm starving!我饿坏了，你家有什么吃的吗? 5. Many people starved to death in the famine.许多人饿死于此次饥荒。 6. He starved for meeting her once again.他渴望能再见她一面。 7. The child was starving for affection.小孩子渴望着父母的慈爱。 8. Having survived starvation , we're beginning to live happily.经过了赤贫之后，我们开始了幸福的生活。 9. Many children in the orphanage were starved often.孤儿院中的孩子们常常挨饿。 10. to starve a besieged garrison into surrender以饥饿迫使被围守军投降 11. to starve others' comprehension渴望他人的理解 12. He died of starving oxygen but not from gunfire.他死于缺氧窒息而非枪击。 13. to starve someone for his excessive appetite以饥饿疗法治疗贪食症 14. she left her animals to starve.她使得她的动物挨饿。 15. seven million starved to death.饿死的有七百万人。 16. [as adj. starving]the world's starving children.世界上处于饥饿中的孩子。 17. for a while she had considered starving herself.有一段时间她曾想饿死自己。 18. I don't know about you, but I'm starving.我不知道你怎么样，但是我是饿坏了。 19. the Royalists were starved out after eleven days.在经过11天以后，由于饥饿保皇党人被迫就范。 20. German U-boats hoping to starve Britain into submission.希望以饥饿来迫使英国屈服的德国潜艇。 21. the arts are being starved of funds.那些艺术现在急需资金。 22. pull down that window for we are perfectly starving here.请把窗户拉下来，因为我们这里非常冷。 23. Millions of people are starving in the poorer countries of the world.在世界上的贫穷国家里，有数以百万计的人正在挨饿。 24. The children had been starved of love and affection for years.孩子们多年来都没有得到关爱。 25. Without food they would starve.没有食物他们会饿死。 26. They left him to starve out in the desert.他们把他留在沙漠中饿死。 27. Those people are starving.那些人在挨饿。 28. providing food for starving children为饥饿的孩子们提供食物 29. The famine caused many to starve to death. [=to die from lack of food]饥荒使很多人饿死。 30. They tried to starve their enemies into submission.他们试图以断绝敌人食物来迫使他们屈服。 31. It was clear that the dog had been starved.很明显，这条狗是饿着了。 32. You don't have to starve yourself to lose weight.你不必通过饿肚子来减肥。 33. Those children are starving for attention. [=they badly need to be given more attention]那些孩子渴望得到关怀。 34. "After being alone for so long, I was starving for conversation."独处了这么久，我渴望和人交谈。 35. a government program that is starving for funds急需资金的政府计划 36. Those children have been starved of attention. [=they have not been given enough attention]那些孩子未得到充分关怀。 37. (chiefly US) Those children are starved for attention. [=they badly need to be given more attention]那些孩子急需得到更多关怀。 38. a cash-starved company急需现金的公司 39. "I skipped lunch, so by dinnertime I was starving."我没吃午饭，所以晚饭时我很饿。 40. When are we eating? I'm starved!我们什么时候吃饭？我很饿！