Starve

Definition

starve /stɑ:v / v ၁။ ငတ္မြတ္သည္။ အစာေရစာငတ္ျပတ္သည္။ အစာ ငတ္ခံသည္။ starve to death ❍ pictures of starving children ❍ wild animals starving in the drought ❍ ( infml ) She's starving herself to try to lose weight. ၂။ ( infml ) အလြန္ဆာသည္။ What's for dinner? I'm starving! ❏ starvation /stɑ:'veÇʃn / n [U] အစာေရစာ ငတ္ျပတ္ျခင္း။ ငတ္မြတ္ျခင္း။ die of starvation ❍ starvation wages (ie too low to buy enough food) ❍ a starvation diet (ie hardly enough food to keep one alive). မေသထမင္း မေသဟင္း။ မဝေရစာ။ ❍ HUNGER ❏ starve sb into sth/doing sth [ PHRV ] (အညံ့ခံေစရန္၊ လက္နက္ခ်ေစရန္ စသည္) အစာအငတ္ ထားသည္၊ စားေရ ရိကၡာျဖတ္သည္။ be starved into surrender/surrendering. ❏ starve sb/sth of sth [ PHRV ] ငတ္သည္။ မြတ္သိပ္သည္။ ျပတ္လပ္သည္။ children starved of affection ❍ Industry is being starved of technical expertise. ❏ starve sb out (of sth) [ PHRV ] အစာေရစာျဖတ္၍ ခိုေအာင္းေနရာမွ ထြက္လာေစ သည္။ It took 8 days to starve them out (of the building).

Examples

1. There are people out there who are starving because of your actions.
2. They were accused of deliberately starving the prisoners.
3. [starve yourself to death] : He threatened to starve himself to death if the war didn’t stop.