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† ˈhunger-starve, v. Obs.
[f. hunger n. + starve v.]
trans. ‘To starve with hunger’: formerly in regular use where the simple ‘starve’ is now usual.
1390Gower Conf. III. 28 Min eye wolde..Ben hunger storven also faste, Till eft ayein that he her see. 1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 351 If it were not..should not all kinde of cattell..perishe, and be hunger starved? 1587Golding De Mornay xxxi. 499 It is written..I will hunger-starue all the Gods of the Gentiles. 1610Histrio-m. vi. G iv b, Though Famine hungerstarue yet heauen saues.
So hunger-starved, † -starven ppl. a.; † hunger-starving vbl. n. and ppl. a.
a1533Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. Ii iij b, Accompaignied with hunger staruen trewandes. 1578J. Stockwood Serm. 24 Aug. 17 The vnmercifull and hunger-staruen Souldiers. 1592Dee Comp. Rehears. (Chetham Soc.) 35 To save us from hunger starving. 1597–8Bp. Hall Sat. i. i. 13 Such hunger-starven trencher poetrie. 1632Lithgow Trav. iii. 100, I in that hunger-starving feare, fed upon the expectation of my doubtfull reliefe. 1647Trapp Comm. Matt. xv. 27 Those that are hunger-starved are glad to feed upon hedge-fruit. 1692Dryden Eleonora 47 The Hunger-starv'd, the Naked, and the Lame. 1725De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 345 They were indeed hunger-starved. 1728Morgan Algiers I. iv. 123 This tattered, and seemingly hunger-starved, Body of Cavalry. a1879J. S. Brewer Eng. Stud. (1881) 434 Wolves and foxes..hunger-starved, swept down from the neighbouring forest. |