Vocabulary
Starve
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
suffer or die or cause to suffer or die from hunger.
Urdu meaning
فاقہ کشی، بھوک سے مرنا
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Meanwhile, Palestinian men, women and children continue to starve to death, if they are lucky enough to survive Israel`s barbaric attacks.
- It has starved hundreds to death including many children and is threatening to starve millions.
- Food allocations hovered around 20-23bn, while forestry and fisheries were left to starve on scraps of 2bn each.
- And the federal government will have to starve its own plans, and its MNAs, in order to keep the fiscal equation more or less in control.
- Celebrities who say things like `my heart breaks for all children` just don`t cut it when it comes to the diabolical ongoing plan to starve Palestinian children as the world watches.
Synonyms
dying of hunger, dying from lack of food, faint from lack of food, deprived of food,
Curator example
“she left her animals to starve”
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