starve

1. V-I If people starve, they suffer greatly from lack of food which sometimes leads to their death. 挨餓; 餓死

A number of the prisoners we saw are starving. 我們看到的許多囚犯都快餓死了。

In the 1930s, millions of Ukrainians starved to death or were deported. 在20世紀(jì)30年代，數(shù)百萬烏克蘭人或因饑餓而死，或被驅(qū)逐出境。

2. V-T To starve someone means not to give them any food. 使挨餓

He said the only alternative was to starve the people, and he said this could not be allowed to happen. 他說惟一的其他辦法是餓那些人，但他說這種做法是不允許的。

3. V-T If a person or thing is starved of something that they need, they are suffering because they are not getting enough of it. 使極其缺乏

The electricity industry is not the only one to have been starved of investment. 電力行業(yè)并不是惟一極其缺乏投資的行業(yè)。