Uttal

  • UttalUS
  • British:
    • IPA: /stɑː(ɹ)v/
Översättning
Verb
1.svälta
2.hungra
3.förlama
4.vara utsvulten
5.vara svulten

Definitioner

Verb

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To die; in later use especially to die slowly, waste away.
  2. (intransitive) To die because of lack of food or of not eating.
  3. (intransitive) To be very hungry.
  4. (transitive) To destroy, make capitulate or at least make suffer by deprivation, notably of food.
  5. (transitive) To deprive of nourishment.
  6. (transitive, British, especially Yorkshire and Lancashire) To kill with cold.

Exempel

  • noble Britomart / Released her, that else was like to sterue, / Through cruell knife that her deare heart did kerue.
  • "When all of you starve to death, Shasta, don't come crying to me, that's all."
  • Hey, ma, I'm starving!
  • They starved the child until it withered away.
  • I was half starved waiting out in that wind.

Böjningsformer

PerfektparticipstarvedPerfektparticipstorven
PerfektparticipstorveImperfektstarved
ImperfektstarfImperfektstorve
PresensparticipstarvingTredje person singular indicativ presensstarves
Tredje person singular indicativ presensstarveth

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