[stɑːv], (Verb)

Definitions:
- suffer or die or cause to suffer or die from hunger
(e.g: she left her animals to starve)

- be freezing cold
(e.g: pull down that window for we are perfectly starving here)


Phrases:
- starve the beast

Origin:
Old English steorfan ‘to die’, of Germanic origin, probably from a base meaning ‘be rigid’ (compare with stare); related to Dutch sterven and German sterben