starve

To die because of lack of food or of not eating.

During the Cultural Revolution I was exiled to Xincai County in Henan Province. There, 36 percent of the people starved to death in the early 1960s.

"When all of you starve to death, Shasta, don't come crying to me, that's all."

To suffer severely because of lack of food or of not eating.

Ah (ſaid the Ape as ſighing vvondrous ſad) / Its an hard caſe, vvhen men of good deſeruing / Muſt either driuen be perforce to ſteruing, / Or asked for their pas by euerie ſquib: […]

..., and the little half-starved, stunted girl of twelve, with her brown arms and steady, unerring aim, will hammer out half a bundle, IS. 6½d.

To be very hungry.

I was starving so I wrote S.O.S. on the desert island using rocks.

To kill or attempt to kill by depriving of food.

To make suffer severely by depriving of food.