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STARVE

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starve verb A. intranzitiv

1. a muri / a fi lihnit de foame;

I am starveing mor / nu mai pot de foame.

2. a muri / a pieri de foame;

to starve to death a muri de foame.

3. (înv.) a muri.

4. a dori ceva cu înfocare, a tânji după.

starve verb B. tranzitiv

1. a înfometa;

to starve a garrison into surrender a face o garnizoană să se predea prin foamete.

2. (fig.) a omorî prin foame.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

"She will have nothing to eat: you will starve her," observed Adele.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

If they allowed me to remain there until my seven shillings were spent, I couldn't hope to remain there when I began to starve.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

They are starving me.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"You must be starving."

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

These two baby wolves! If I am lean like a starved cat, they are lean like cats that have never eaten and have died. Their eyes are sunk deep in their heads, bright sometimes as with fever, dim and cloudy sometimes like the eyes of the dead. Their cheeks are hollow like caves in a cliff. Also are their cheeks black and raw from many freezings.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

"If I cannot harness you," said the Witch to the Lion, speaking through the bars of the gate, "I can starve you. You shall have nothing to eat until you do as I wish."

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, de L. Frank Baum)

Do not ask me, reader, to give a minute account of that day; as before, I sought work; as before, I was repulsed; as before, I starved; but once did food pass my lips.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

I am starved for sleep.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

When he starved, his thoughts had dwelt often upon the thousands he knew were starving the world over; but now that he was feasted full, the fact of the thousands starving was no longer pregnant in his brain.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

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