\Starve\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Starved}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Starving}.] [OE. sterven to die, AS. steorfan; akin to D.
sterven, G. sterben, OHG. sterban, Icel. starf labor, toil.]
1. To die; to perish. [Obs., except in the sense of perishing
   with cold or hunger.] --Lydgate.
         In hot coals he hath himself raked . . . Thus
         starved this worthy mighty Hercules.  --Chaucer.
2. To perish with hunger; to suffer extreme hunger or want;
   to be very indigent.
         Sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed. --Pope.
3. To perish or die with cold. --Spenser.
         Have I seen the naked starve for cold? --Sandys.
         Starving with cold as well as hunger. --W. Irving.
Note: In this sense, still common in England, but rarely used
      of the United States.

\Starve\, v. t.
1. To destroy with cold. [Eng.]
         From beds of raging fire, to starve in ice Their
         soft ethereal warmth.                 --Milton.
2. To kill with hunger; as, maliciously to starve a man is,
   in law, murder.
3. To distress or subdue by famine; as, to starvea garrison
   into a surrender.
         Attalus endeavored to starve Italy by stopping their
         convoy of provisions from Africa.     --Arbuthnot.
4. To destroy by want of any kind; as, to starve plans by
   depriving them of proper light and air.
5. To deprive of force or vigor; to disable.
         The pens of historians, writing thereof, seemed
         starved for matter in an age so fruitful of
         memorable actions.                    --Fuller.
         The powers of their minds are starved by disuse.
                                               --Locke.