Definitions
1.verbTo die; in later use especially to die slowly, waste away.
2.verbTo die because of lack of food or of not eating.
3.verbTo be very hungry."Hey, ma, I'm starving! What's for dinner?"
4.verbTo destroy, make capitulate or at least make suffer by deprivation, notably of food.
5.verbTo deprive of nourishment or of some vital component."The patient's brain was starved of oxygen."
6.verbTo deteriorate for want of any essential thing.
7.verb(especially Yorkshire and Lancashire) To kill with cold."I was half starved waiting out in that wind."