starving

• vi.starve的变形

starve[stɑ:v]

• vi.
  • 挨饿，饥饿；饿得难受：

    Have you got any food in your house? I'm starving!

    我饿坏了，你家有什么吃的吗?

  • 饿死：

    Many people starved to death in the famine.

    许多人饿死于此次饥荒。

  • 渴望，迫切希望(常与for连用)：

    He starved for meeting her once again.

    他渴望能再见她一面。

    The child was starving for affection.

    小孩子渴望着父母的慈爱。

  • 经受极端贫困：

    Having survived starvation , we're beginning to live happily.

    经过了赤贫之后，我们开始了幸福的生活。

  • [主英国方言、古语]挨冻；冻死
  • [废语]死亡
• vt.
  • 使饥饿；使饿死：

    Many children in the orphanage were starved often.

    孤儿院中的孩子们常常挨饿。

  • (以饥饿)迫使，强迫：

    to starve a besieged garrison into surrender

    以饥饿迫使被围守军投降

  • 使极度缺乏，使急需；使渴望：

    to starve others' comprehension

    渴望他人的理解

    He died of starving oxygen but not from gunfire.

    他死于缺氧窒息而非枪击。

  • 用饥饿法治疗(疾病)：

    to starve someone for his excessive appetite

    以饥饿疗法治疗贪食症

  • 用切断火源的方法扑灭(火)
  • [英国方言、古语]使挨冻；使冻死
• 近义词:

  hungry

• 变形:

  vi.starved.starving