Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To starve.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb obsolete To afflict with, or perish from, hunger.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To cause (somebody) to die of
hunger ; tostarve .
Etymologies
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From French affamer, from Latin ad + fames ("hunger"). Compare famish.
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