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.