starve
verb
[ stɑːv ]
• suffer or die or cause to suffer or die from hunger.
• "she left her animals to starve"
• be freezing cold.
• "pull down that window for we are perfectly starving here"
Origin:
Old English steorfan ‘to die’, of Germanic origin, probably from a base meaning ‘be rigid’ (compare with stare); related to Dutch sterven and German sterben .
