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What is the verb for starvation?

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starve
  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, Britain, especially Yorkshire and Lancashire) To kill with cold.
  7. Synonyms:
  8. Examples:
    1. “After being stranded on the deserted island for weeks, they began to starve to death due to the absence of any edible resources.”
      “After getting stranded on the deserted island, they had no access to food or water and began to starve.”
      “During the pandemic, many families struggled to afford food and were forced to starve their own nutritional needs in order to feed their children.”
starved
starving
starvate
  1. (nonstandard) Synonym of starve
starves
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of starve
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The successful physician starves the first ten years, lives on bread and butter the second, and may have cakes and ale the third decade.”
      “Taking too much off at once starves the roots and may cause new lower leaves to sunburn.”
      “If someone starves, a hero will give up their own food and die before letting that person expire.”
starveth
  1. (archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative form of starve
starvest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of starve
storve
  1. (obsolete) simple past tense of starve
storven
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