starved

1. VERB 挨饿;饿死
   If people starve, they suffer greatly from lack of food which sometimes leads to their death.
   1. A number of the prisoners we saw are starving...
      我们看到的一些囚犯快要饿死了。
   2. In the 1930s, millions of Ukrainians starved to death or were deported...
      在 20 世纪 30 年代，有几百万乌克兰人饿死或被驱逐出境。
   3. Getting food to starving people does nothing to stop the war.
      为挨饿的人们提供食物对制止战争毫无帮助。
2. VERB 使挨饿
   To starve someone means not to give them any food.
   1. He said the only alternative was to starve the people, and he said this could not be allowed to happen...
      他说唯一的其他选择就是让人们挨饿，又说这是绝对不允许发生的。
   2. Judy decided I was starving myself.
      朱迪认定我在让自己挨饿。
3. VERB 使极其缺乏;使迫切需要
   If a person or thing is starved of something that they need, they are suffering because they are not getting enough of it.
   1. The electricity industry is not the only one to have been starved of investment...
      投资严重缺乏的不光是电力工业。
   2. The most damaging thing the West could do is to starve Russia of new foreign capital.
      西方能够祭出的最阴险一招就是不让俄罗斯得到新的外资。
   3. ...an audience hungry for American films and long starved of choice.
      渴望看到美国电影且长期以来没有多少选择的观众

1. We were drowning in data but starved of information.
   我们淹没在大量的数据中却找不到有用的信息。
2. In these places people starved, were flogged, were clubbed to death
   在这些地方，人们忍饥挨饿，遭受鞭打，甚至会被乱棍打死。
3. In the 1930s, millions of Ukrainians starved to death or were deported
   在20世纪30年代，有几百万乌克兰人饿死或被驱逐出境。
4. The electricity industry is not the only one to have been starved of investment
   投资严重缺乏的不光是电力工业。
5. Don't worry. you're not going to be starved to death.
   你放心，饿不死你。
6. He looks half starved and wants feeding up.
   他看上去一副忍饥挨饿的样子，需要多吃点东西。
7. It was like watching a starved plant draw up water, to see her drink in his companionship.
   这情形就像看着一株憔悴的植物吸进水份一样，眼看着她和自己在一起吸收着友谊。
8. If he lost his health and lost his job we would all have starved.
   假如他失去了健康，失去了工作，我们就都会挨饿。
9. My brother and my friends also stayed there and starved during the winter.
   我的兄弟和朋友也待在那里，冬天时要挨饿。
10. These were starved and tortured in captivity until a large number died.
    这些人中的大部分，最后因为无法忍受饥饿和折磨而死亡。
11. When I came home in the afternoon, the cats almost starved to death.
    当我下战书放学回家时，猫都将近饿死了。
12. Looks like they starved her to death first.
    看上去他们先把她饿死了。
13. I had starved with cold and hunger on that island for close upon one hundred hours.
    我在那个小岛上饥寒交迫地受了将近一百小时的折磨了。
14. I'm half starved. I could eat horse.
    饿死了。我几乎可以吃得下一匹马。
15. Thns of thousands of people starved to death because of the civil war.
    因为那次内战成千上万的人都饿死了。
16. Bacterial action on the wood had starved the water of oxygen, spoiling habitat for migrating salmon.
    木材的细菌作用耗尽了水中的氧气，破坏了迁徙性三文鱼的栖息环境。
17. Whole communities starved to death during the long drought.
    在长期的干旱中，整个村落都饿死了。
18. They got lost in the desert and starved to death.
    他们在沙漠中迷路饿死了。
19. The frontier station was starved for food and water.
    边防站急需食物和水。
20. If he had had a little food then, he would not have starved to death.
    如果当时他有一点点食物的话，他就不会饿死了。
21. I quit because I would have starved to death.
    因为最后饿到快死，还是放弃了。
22. Millions of them starved or were arrested and deported.
    他们中的数百万人因饥饿而死，或遭逮捕和驱逐出境。
23. We might all have starved otherwise.
    要不然，我们可能全都饿死了。
24. They starved the enemy into surrender.
    他们使敌人饿得投降了。
25. They lost their way in dessert, and starved to death.
    他们在沙漠中迷了路，最后饿死。
26. During the war we almost starved.
    战争时我们几乎饿死了。
27. Thousands of people starved to death that year.
    那一年数以千计的人都饿死了。
28. We had no foods to eat, so many people had starved to death.
    当年我们吃糠咽菜，不知道饿死了多少人。
29. The army starved the rebels by cutting off their food supplies.
    军队通过切断叛军的食物供给饿死了他们。
30. Thousands of people were starved to death during the famine year.
    那年饥荒饿死了几千人。

adj

1. extremely hungry
   1. they were tired and famished for food and sleep
   2. a ravenous boy
   3. the family was starved and ragged
   4. fell into the esurient embrance of a predatory enemy

   Synonym:    famishedravenoussharp-setesurient

2. suffering from lack of food

   Synonym:    starving