| ลองค้นหาคำในรูปแบบอื่น ๆ เพื่อให้ได้ผลลัพธ์มากขึ้นหรือน้อยลง: -starv-, *starv* |
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| | | starvation | (n) a state of extreme hunger resulting from lack of essential nutrients over a prolonged period, Syn. famishment | | starvation | (n) the act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine, Syn. starving, Example: the besiegers used starvation to induce surrender; they were charged with the starvation of children in their care | | starvation acidosis | (n) acidosis in which the acidity results from lack of food which leads to fat catabolism which in turn releases acidic ketone bodies | | starve | (v) be hungry; go without food, Syn. hunger, famish, Ant. be full, Example: Let's eat--I'm starving! | | starve | (v) die of food deprivation, Syn. famish, Example: The political prisoners starved to death; Many famished in the countryside during the drought | | starve | (v) deprive of food, Syn. famish, Ant. feed, Example: They starved the prisoners | | starve | (v) deprive of a necessity and cause suffering, Example: he is starving her of love; The engine was starved of fuel | | starved aster | (n) a variety of aster, Syn. calico aster | | starveling | (n) someone who is starving (or being starved) |
| | Starvation | n. The act of starving, or the state of being starved. [ 1913 Webster ] ☞ This word was first used, according to Horace Walpole, by Henry Dundas, the first Lord Melville, in a speech on American affairs in 1775, which obtained for him the nickname of Starvation Dundas. “Starvation, we are also told, belongs to the class of 'vile compounds' from being a mongrel; as if English were not full of mongrels, and as if it would not be in distressing straits without them.” Fitzed. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Starve | v. t. 1. To destroy with cold. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ] From beds of raging fire, to starve in ice Their soft ethereal warmth. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. To kill with hunger; as, maliciously to starve a man is, in law, murder. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. To distress or subdue by famine; as, to starve a garrison into a surrender. [ 1913 Webster ] Attalus endeavored to starve Italy by stopping their convoy of provisions from Africa. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ] 4. To destroy by want of any kind; as, to starve plants by depriving them of proper light and air. [ 1913 Webster ] 5. To deprive of force or vigor; to disable. [ 1913 Webster ] The pens of historians, writing thereof, seemed starved for matter in an age so fruitful of memorable actions. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ] The powers of their minds are starved by disuse. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Starve | v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Starved p. pr. & vb. n. Starving. ] [ OE. sterven to die, AS. steorfan; akin to D. sterven, G. sterben, OHG. sterban, Icel. starf labor, toil. ] 1. To die; to perish. [ Obs., except in the sense of perishing with cold or hunger. ] Lydgate. [ 1913 Webster ] In hot coals he hath himself raked . . . Thus starved this worthy mighty Hercules. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. To perish with hunger; to suffer extreme hunger or want; to be very indigent. [ 1913 Webster ] Sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. To perish or die with cold. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ] Have I seen the naked starve for cold? Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ] Starving with cold as well as hunger. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ] ☞ In this sense, still common in England, but rarely used in the United States. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Starvedly | adv. In the condition of one starved or starving; parsimoniously. [ 1913 Webster ] Some boasting housekeeper which keepth open doors for one day, . . . and lives starvedly all the year after. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Starveling | n. [ Starve + -ling. ] One who, or that which, pines from lack of food, or nutriment. [ 1913 Webster ] Old Sir John hangs with me, and thou knowest he is no starveling. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Starveling | a. Hungry; lean; pining with want. [ 1913 Webster ] |
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