Meanings
Readings
Common Words
to starve; to be famished; to be hungry
to be starved of (e.g. love); to be thirsty for (e.g. knowledge); to be hungry for
hunger; starvation
starvation; famine; hunger
famine; crop failure
chronic shortage (e.g. of water)
Sensitive
(death from) starvation; starving to death
Rare term
starving and freezing to death
to hunger for love; to starve for love
to suffer from hunger
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