Starve
To die; to perish.
To perish with hunger; to suffer extreme hunger or want; to be very indigent.
To perish or die with cold.
To destroy with cold.
To kill with hunger; as, maliciously to starve a man is, in law, murder.
To distress or subdue by famine; as, to starvea garrison into a surrender.
To destroy by want of any kind; as, to starve plans by depriving them of proper light and air.
To deprive of force or vigor; to disable.
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Starve Quotations
Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
Margaret Thatcher
I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good.
Virgil Thomson
Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
Pearl S. Buck
To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
Pearl S. Buck
I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.
Ezra Pound
Look I eat really well and I work out, but I also indulge when I want to. I don't starve myself in an extremist way. You're not taking away my coffee or my dairy or my glass of wine because I'd be devastated.
Jennifer Aniston
If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.
Sam Snead
If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?
Charles Ives
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
Charles Caleb Colton
I don't go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack.
Vanessa Hudgens
Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know? And our own hogs, and our own cows and stuff, you know.
James Earl Jones
Anorexia, you starve yourself. Bulimia, you binge and purge. You eat huge amounts of food until you're sick and then you throw up. And anorexia, you just deny yourself. It's about control.
Tracey Gold
I actually go to the gym much more now than I did when I was on Buffy. I like to stay fit, because that's when I feel really healthy. But I never worked out for any kind of image. People have said to me, 'Do you starve yourself before photo shoots?' And I always say, 'No way.! That's what airbrushing is for. I had french fries last night.'
Sarah Michelle Gellar
We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don't starve. Those are values, too.
Charles Schumer
When you're starting out as an actor, there isn't much food around. I was lucky to have a hit pretty early on. I didn't starve too long.
Steve Guttenberg
Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?
Cate Blanchett
In addition, the oil royalties the Federal Government does not collect from big oil will starve the Land and Water Conservation Fund of critical financial resources.
Ron Kind
Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice.
Joan Chen
In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.
Larry Niven
All the tribes tell the same story. They are surrounded on all sides, the game is destroyed or driven away; they are left to starve, and there remains but one thing for them to do - fight while they can.
George Crook
I don't cook - I can cook - but I'm not very good. I like being asked over for dinner, because she can't cook either. We would starve if it weren't for modern technology. I know how to work a microwave, but love home cooked meals.
Mark Mothersbaugh
I grew up wanting to be a musician, but my parents were sure I would starve to death. So, they put me in physics and chemistry. That eventually blew up, and I got into radio.
John Tesh
I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.
Benjamin Harrison
I would rather die in freedom on my way back home than starve to death here.
Morning Star
You have to starve the Beast. That's one of the most important things about tax cuts. If you leave the money in Washington, it's going to be spent.
Steve Chabot
Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
Richard Wright
Every decision that you make you have to be incredible congruent. It doesn't mean that you have to starve. If you need money, you do something that gives you money, that's normal.
Gael Garcia Bernal
I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn't starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything else.
Arthur Boyd
In the past, if I didn't work, I didn't eat but now I feel I can not work and I won't starve.
Mark Strong
Now that judges embrace forcibly starving someone to death, Congress should use its appropriation power to starve the judicial budget.
Phyllis Schlafly
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Starve Translations
starve in French is affament, affamez, affamons, affamer
starve in German is hungere, hungern, verhungern
starve in Spanish is morir de hambre
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