(v. t.) To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to distress with hanger.
(v. t.) To kill, or to cause to suffer extremity, by deprivation or denial of anything necessary.
(v. t.) To force or constrain by famine.
(v. i.) To die of hunger; to starve.
(v. i.) To suffer extreme hunger or thirst, so as to be exhausted in strength, or to come near to perish.
(v. i.) To suffer extremity from deprivation of anything essential or necessary.
(a.) Smoky; hot; choleric.
Example Sentences:
(1) The peculiar features of SBH are discussed by means of optical, cytochemical, electron microscopical investigations which point out the polymorphous aspect of these "famished" macrophages.
(2) In a new study of hunger's effects on the mind, neuroscientists pieced together what happens in the brain that makes us buy more food when we are famished.
(3) After 30 years I now understand the words that a character in Ben Okri’s The Famished Road says to the white man who complains he hasn’t been able to leave Africa: you can get out of Africa, when you can get Africa out of you.
(4) Even in those most crucial final moments, irreverent presenters Mel and Sue sidled around the marquee, minesweeping offcuts like two St Trinian’s gels totally famished after lacrosse.
(5) And from there we proceeded with the Prijedor police chief and camp commander Zeljko Mejakic through the gates of Omarska, to behold men in various states of shocking decay emerging from a great hangar, being drilled across a yard and into a canteen, where they wolfed down watery bean stew like famished dogs.
(6) Catton takes the youngest winner title from Ben Okri who was 32 when The Famished Road won the Booker prize in 1991.
(7) Last week, a famished woman whose benefits were stopped was prosecuted and fined more than £300 for stealing a 75p pack of Mars Bars.
Starve
Definition:
(v. i.) To die; to perish.
(v. i.) To perish with hunger; to suffer extreme hunger or want; to be very indigent.
(v. i.) To perish or die with cold.
(v. t.) To destroy with cold.
(v. t.) To kill with hunger; as, maliciously to starve a man is, in law, murder.
(v. t.) To distress or subdue by famine; as, to starvea garrison into a surrender.
(v. t.) To destroy by want of any kind; as, to starve plans by depriving them of proper light and air.
(v. t.) To deprive of force or vigor; to disable.
Example Sentences:
(1) The disappearance of ribosomes in Escherichia coli cells starved for a carbon source was studied.
(2) Kimberley Carlile , aged four, was starved and beaten by her stepfather in Greenwich, east London, in 1986.
(3) Their defect in DNA degradation was shown not only after treatment by toluene but also in crude extracts after cell disintegration by ultrasonic and in untreated starved cultures.
(4) Serum starved BHK cells had low levels of all four deoxyribonucleoside triphosphates.
(5) Serum testosterone, luteinizing hormone (LH), testicular histology and ultrastructure were examined in 91 spontaneously diabetic BB, semi-starved, and control Wistar rats.
(6) This occurs with mitochondria obtained from normal, starved and streptozotocin-diabetic rats.
(7) Thus, the long stalks of Sk1 or phosphate-starved caulobacters are not merely a function of their longer doubling times.
(8) The ultrastructure of the water-clear cells of the parathyroid glands in the starved adult and senile animals almost resembled that of the control adult and senile animals.
(9) Pimozide administration did not alter the peak TRH-stimulated TSH response in either the normal animals or the starved animals.
(10) More than 120,000 people, most of them children, are at risk of starving to death next year in areas of Nigeria affected by the Boko Haram insurgency, the United Nations is warning.
(11) After administration of pivmecillinam (400 mg) with meal, Tasc was significantly delayed beyond the value obtained when the subjects were starved.
(12) No apparent difference was detected in the composition and saturation status of pooled starved plaque fluid from CF and CS individuals.
(13) When mammalian cells are starved for amino acids, the activity of the A amino acid transport system increases, a phenomenon called adaptive regulation.
(14) Exogenous spermidine extensively relaxed RNA synthesis in amino acid-starved cultures of 15 TAU.
(15) In other experiments histidine misincorporation for glutamine was measured in glutamine starved cells with normal levels of histidine-specific tRNA and cells overproducing this tRNA.
(16) In contrast, the metabolite profile in the soleus was consistent with activation of the glucose-fatty acid cycle in the starved rat during the recovery period after exercise.
(17) Madaya: residents of besieged Syrian town say they are being starved to death Read more The Syrian regime and Hezbollah have put Madaya under siege for more than six months now as a response to the siege of the northern towns of Fua and Kefraya by anti-regime forces.
(18) When fed ducklings were starved, fatty acid synthase mRNA decayed with a half-life of about 3 h. Therefore, the half-life for fatty acid synthase mRNA appeared to be little affected by feeding or starvation.
(19) Administration of dicarboxylic acids to starving rats decreased the concentration of ketone bodies in the blood.
(20) Infusion of 3-hydroxybutyrate into starved rats caused marked increases in the arteriovenous differences for lactate and both ketone bodies.