What's the difference between kill and starve?

Kill


Definition:

  • (n.) A kiln.
  • (n.) A channel or arm of the sea; a river; a stream; as, the channel between Staten Island and Bergen Neck is the Kill van Kull, or the Kills; -- used also in composition; as, Schuylkill, Catskill, etc.
  • (v. t.) To deprive of life, animal or vegetable, in any manner or by any means; to render inanimate; to put to death; to slay.
  • (v. t.) To destroy; to ruin; as, to kill one's chances; to kill the sale of a book.
  • (v. t.) To cause to cease; to quell; to calm; to still; as, in seamen's language, a shower of rain kills the wind.
  • (v. t.) To destroy the effect of; to counteract; to neutralize; as, alkali kills acid.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Villagers, including one man who has been left disabled and the relatives of six men who were killed, are suing ABG in the UK high court, represented by British law firm Leigh Day, alleging that Tanzanian police officers shot unarmed locals.
  • (2) After two weeks all animals were killed and autopsies of the animals were performed.
  • (3) Although Jeggo's Chinese hamster ovary cells were more responsive to mAMSA, novo still abrogated mAMSA toxicity in the mutant cells as well as in the parental Chinese hamster ovary cells 2,4-Dinitrophenol acted similarly to novo with respect to mAMSA killing, but neither compound reduced the ATP content of V79 cells.
  • (4) We sought additional evidence for an inverse relationship between functional CTL-target cell affinity on the one hand, and susceptibility of the CTL-mediated killing to inhibition by alpha LFA-1 and alpha Lyt-2,3 monoclonal antibodies on the other hand.
  • (5) Attempts are now being made to use this increased understanding to produce effective killed vaccines that produce immune responses in the lung.
  • (6) A diplomatic source said the killing appeared particularly unusual because of Farooq lack of recent political activity: "He was lying low in the past two years.
  • (7) These observations were confirmed by the killing curves in pooled serum obtained at peak and trough levels.
  • (8) It comes in defiant journalism, like the story televised last week of a gardener in Aleppo who was killed by bombs while tending his roses and his son, who helped him, orphaned.
  • (9) These 150 women, the word acknowledges, were killed for being women.
  • (10) According to some reports as many as 30 people were killed in the explosion, although that figure could not be independently confirmed.
  • (11) Only candidacidal activity was enhanced in FCA-elicited peritoneal macrophages (median C. albicans killed 28% versus 16% for resident peritoneal macrophages, p less than 0.01).
  • (12) The reproducibility of the killing-curve method suggests that at least two different concentrations should be used and that a decrease in viable counts below 2 log10 after 24 hours does not exclude a synergistic action.
  • (13) She was not aware that it was an assassination attempt by alleged foreign agents.” If at least one of the women thought the killing was part of an elaborate prank, it might explain the “LOL” message emblazoned in large letters one of the killers t-shirts.
  • (14) A 45-year-old mother of four, named as Hediye Sen, was killed during clashes in Cizre, while a 70-year-old died of a heart attack during fighting in Silopi, according to hospital sources.
  • (15) Females were killed at various times after the onset of mating or artificial insemination, oviducts were fixed and sectioned serially, and spermatozoa were counted individually as to their location in the oviduct.
  • (16) Knapman concluded that the 40-year-old designer, whose full name was Lee Alexander McQueen, "killed himself while the balance of his mind was disturbed".
  • (17) It said 70 of the killed militants were from Isis, while the other 50 it described as being aligned with the Nusra Front, the parent organisation of the Khorasan cell and al-Qaida’s preferred affiliate in Syria.
  • (18) The information about her father's semi-brainwashing forms an interesting backdrop to Malala's comments when I ask if she ever wonders about the man who tried to kill her on her way back from school that day in October last year, and why his hands were shaking as he held the gun – a detail she has picked up from the girls in the school bus with her at the time; she herself has no memory of the shooting.
  • (19) However, in GF rats and in rats monoassociated with viable P. acnes, parenteral injection of killed P. acnes antigen inhibited the plaque-forming cell response to sheep erythrocytes.
  • (20) The groups were killed at 12, 24, 48, and 72 hours, respectively, after 3MI administration.

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.