Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A simplified spelling of
starve .
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Examples
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That year much of Europe was suffering from starv ...
Barbara Probst Solomon: On Julie & Julia, the Fake Movieland France and My Non-Buttery Menu 2009
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Rite, becaws teh owls donut delibber teh groceries, ai must go to teh soopermarket becaws we has no noms in teh hows at AWL an if ai duz nawt get up awf my a*** we will awl starv to deff.
HOGWARTS POST OFFICE - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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That year much of Europe was suffering from starv ...
Barbara Probst Solomon: On Julie & Julia, the Fake Movieland France and My Non-Buttery Menu 2009
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August 9, 2008 at 9:57 am sew iz it ‘feed a feevr, starv a cowld’ oar udder wai roun?
grampa kitteh - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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If he was in danger of starv - ing, then a conjuration would be in order; meanwhile, foraging would do.
Robot Adept Anthony, Piers 1988
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Having failed to subdue the island from the air, the Nazis were now concentrating on starv - ing England into submission with their wolf packs of submarines, supported by long-range shore - based bombers that were shattering the convoys,
The HurricaneStory Gallico, Paul 1959
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"Oh, he's starv-ved to death," whispered one of the little boys to his sister.
To the Last Man Zane Grey 1905
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What groans of over-fed or half-starvd who fall sun-struck, or in fits;
Walt Whitman 1900
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She had the rag-bundled, half-starvd infant still in her arms, and in her hands held two or three baskets, which she had evidently taken to the next house for sale.
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I tell you; why, 'caze a grate, big, ugly ole jiunt, with grate big eyes, so fashin -- (Mr. Ham made giant's eyes here) -- he kums a rampin' out a frount o 'them' ar rigiments, like the ole devul a gwyin about like a half-starv'd lion a-seeking to devour poor lubly sinnahs!
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.) Various 1887
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