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to starve to death

a. intransitive. Of a person or animal: to die of hunger (also to starve to death); to perish or gradually waste away from lack or insufficiency of food; to suffer severe malnourishment. Now also hyperbolically: to be extremely hungry.Now the usual sense. Originally an elliptical use of sense 2a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > of an animal: be ill [verb (intransitive)]

starvec1450

mourn1577

the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > hunger > be hungry [verb (intransitive)] > be starving

starvelOE

enfaimlec1475

to have cold at the teeth1484

to have the teeth cold1484

famish1535

to famish away1535

famine1553

starve1578

clem1600

affamish1622

c1450 (c1420) J. Page Siege of Rouen (Galba) 414 Thei lay cryynge aftur foode. Summe storuen to dethe [?c1450 Harl. 2256 to þe dethe].

c1475 Mankind (1969) l. 637 (MED) A chyrche..xall pay for ale, brede, and wyn..lett me go by! I kan not geet, and I xulde sterue.

1578 G. Whetstone Promos & Cassandra: 2nd Pt. i. vii. sig. H.i^v Better the purce then body starue of twayne.

1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 1st Pt. sig. D5 For he that giues him other food than this:Shall sit by him and starue to death himselfe.

1604 N. Breton Passionate Shepheard (1877) sig. B4^v That thou wilt no foode reserue, But my flockes and I shall sterue.

1647 in E. Nicholas Papers (1886) I. 70 Were it not for an Irish Barber that was once my servaunt I might have sterved for want of bredd.

1655 I. S. Brief Jrnl. Eng. Army W.-Indies 24 Which in common reason may seem strange that (of all men) Souldiers should starve in a Cooks shop (as the saying is).

1756 T. Hale et al. Compl. Body Husbandry v. xxiii. 229/1 [The goat] will walk at its Ease where any other Animal would break its Neck, and will feed very well where any other Kind would starve.

1785 T. Reid Ess. Intellect. Powers i. iv. 56 And on this foundation some of the schoolmen maintained, that, if a hungry ass were placed between two bundles of hay equally inviting, the beast must stand still and starve to death.

1819 W. Irving Rip Van Winkle in Sketch Bk. i. 65 He..would rather starve on a penny than work for a pound.

1866 T. H. Huxley Lessons Elem. Physiol. vi. §7. 142 An animal..begins to starve from the moment its vital food-stuffs consist of pure amyloids or fats.

1885 ‘Mrs. Alexander’ At Bay i. 9 Pot luck, my dear fellow, but you shan't starve.

1910 A. Hilliers Master Girl i. 24 The man was starving to death. Water he did not want.

1965 A. Lurie Nowhere City xi. 105 'You want something to eat?' 'Sure, I'm starving. What've you got?'

2014 Daily Star (Lebanon) (Nexis) 16 Jan. Another 5 million starved in the famine of 1930-1933.

extracted from starvev.

to starve to death

a. transitive. To cause to die of hunger (also to starve to death); to deprive of or keep only scantily supplied with food over a period of time. Now also hyperbolically (in passive): to be extremely hungry. †Formerly also with up.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > supply > provide or supply (something) [verb (transitive)] > keep ill-supplied

to hold or keep (a person) shortc1425

strait1513

scant1565

starve1570

scantle1581

shorten1599

scant1600

scant1607

short1620

straiten1627

famish1667

limit1670

scrimp1691

under-furnish1694

stint1722

the world > life > death > killing > killing by specific method > kill [verb (transitive)] > by starving

asterveOE

famine1520

starve1570

to famish to deatha1649

the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > hunger > hunger for [verb (transitive)] > starve

famec1384

hunger-starve1390

enfamisha1400

famisha1400

forclemc1400

famine1520

starve1570

hunger1575

clem?c1600

effamisha1603

affamish1615

the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > hunger > hunger for [verb (transitive)] > starve > to death

famishc1440

starve1570

1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Gii^v/1 To Sterue actiue, cibum subducere.

1583 T. Stocker tr. Tragicall Hist. Ciuile Warres Lowe Countries iii. 130 b The young children which were staruen to death, said,..Where is the bread, where is the wine.

1635 R. Johnson Hist. Tom a Lincolne (1828) 106 Wherein was left but onely the Red Rose Knight, in his Palmer's weed (for all the rest were starved up for want of food).

1653 Mercurius Democritus No. 49. 381 A poor pittifull Taylor on Shooe-lane was lately starved to death for cutting of his own throat.

1684 Bp. G. Burnet tr. T. More Utopia 140 Such as are wrought on by these Perswasions, do either starve themselves of their own accord [L. inedia sponte vitam finiunt], or they take Opium.

1718 M. Prior Alma iii, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 368 To starve a man, in law is murther.

1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 463 Oh for a law to noose the villain's neck Who starves his own.

1861 F. Nightingale Notes on Nursing (new ed.) 46 Thousands of patients are annually starved in the midst of plenty.

1932 G. Greene Stamboul Train iii. iii. 155 His parents had starved themselves that he might be a doctor, he himself had gone hungry and endangered his health that he might be a doctor.

1967 C. Potok Chosen 100 'Are you hungry, Reuven?'..'I'm starved,' I said.

1986 P. L. Fermor Between Woods & Water viii. 222 The dungeon-island of Babakai, where a pasha had chained up a runaway wife and starved her to death.

2014 Nation (Thailand) (Nexis) 29 Dec. She also alleged that her former employer would sometimes starve her for two days.

extracted from starvev.

to starve to death

a. transitive. To cause to die of cold (also to starve to death); to benumb with cold, to freeze; (also hyperbolically) to make extremely cold. Now chiefly Scottish and English regional.Originally a spec. use of sense 4a. In quot. 1574 in figurative context.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > cause of death > cause death [verb (transitive)] > by cold

starve1574

the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > make cold [verb (transitive)] > give sensation of cold to > cause to perish with cold

starve1574

perish1796

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > soil qualities > [verb (passive)] > cold for lack of drainage

starve1770

1574 H. Howard Def. Eccl. Regiment in Eng. 65 Then would the froste of priuate quarel either sterue the buddes of the gospell, or the rage of spirituall ambition disturbe the pollicie of euery congregation.

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxi. lviii. 427 Many a man and beast, and seven Elephants..were starved and perished [owing to the intolerable cold].

1636 A. Cowley Sylva 486 No flower or herbe is neere it found, But a perpetuall winter sterves the ground.

1640 T. Carew Poems 45 The cold and frozen ayre had sterv'd Much poore, if not by thee preserv'd.

1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 37 Their cloaths being all wet about them, most of them would have been starv'd to death in the snow.

1697 Countess D'Aunoy's Trav. (1706) 57 What occasion was there..to put me into such an open place to starve me?

c1749 Mr. Bulkeley Diary 22 Feb. in B. Dew Roberts Mr. Bulkeley & Pirate (1936) ii. i. 128 The weather very moderate, but as y^e Evening proved very stormy, I am afraid the poor Children were half starved before they reached Beaumaris.

1770 Lady M. Coke Jrnl. 12 Jan. (1892) III. 203 There is not a window or door that shuts; I am starved to death at my fire side.

1844 M. Howitt tr. W. Hey Child's Picture & Verse Bk. 171 Here is it so cold; it starves us so! Would freeze us, therefore away we go!

1891 Leeds Mercury 19 Dec. 5/6 A man starved to death at Farsley.

1891 North Eastern Daily Gaz. 14 Dec. 3/2 A man starved to death in the storm..was yesterday found at Farsley quite stiff and dead with his walking stick in his hand across his breast.

1893 J. K. Snowden Tales Yorks. Wolds 158 Willie was rubbing his hands slowly before the roaring fire. ‘I'm fearful starved’, he said.

1896 G. F. Northall Warwickshire Word-bk. 227 Don't go out in this cold wind, you'll starve yourself.

1928 A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. N. Riding Yorks. 127/1 T'wind's fit ti starve yĕ.

1958 Huntly Express 30 May 2 It's ower caul', littlin'. Ye wid sterve yersel'.

1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 291/1 Put a blanket run 'im an let 'im in the fire; 'e's starved ter deeãd an' 'e's blue an' 'is teeth'r chitterin'.

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as lemmas

单词	starve to death
释义	> as lemmas to starve to death a. intransitive. Of a person or animal: to die of hunger (also to starve to death); to perish or gradually waste away from lack or insufficiency of food; to suffer severe malnourishment. Now also hyperbolically: to be extremely hungry.Now the usual sense. Originally an elliptical use of sense 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > of an animal: be ill [verb (intransitive)] starvec1450 mourn1577 the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > hunger > be hungry [verb (intransitive)] > be starving starvelOE enfaimlec1475 to have cold at the teeth1484 to have the teeth cold1484 famish1535 to famish away1535 famine1553 starve1578 clem1600 affamish1622 c1450 (c1420) J. Page Siege of Rouen (Galba) 414 Thei lay cryynge aftur foode. Summe storuen to dethe [?c1450 Harl. 2256 to þe dethe]. c1475 Mankind (1969) l. 637 (MED) A chyrche..xall pay for ale, brede, and wyn..lett me go by! I kan not geet, and I xulde sterue. 1578 G. Whetstone Promos & Cassandra: 2nd Pt. i. vii. sig. H.i^v Better the purce then body starue of twayne. 1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 1st Pt. sig. D5 For he that giues him other food than this:Shall sit by him and starue to death himselfe. 1604 N. Breton Passionate Shepheard (1877) sig. B4^v That thou wilt no foode reserue, But my flockes and I shall sterue. 1647 in E. Nicholas Papers (1886) I. 70 Were it not for an Irish Barber that was once my servaunt I might have sterved for want of bredd. 1655 I. S. Brief Jrnl. Eng. Army W.-Indies 24 Which in common reason may seem strange that (of all men) Souldiers should starve in a Cooks shop (as the saying is). 1756 T. Hale et al. Compl. Body Husbandry v. xxiii. 229/1 [The goat] will walk at its Ease where any other Animal would break its Neck, and will feed very well where any other Kind would starve. 1785 T. Reid Ess. Intellect. Powers i. iv. 56 And on this foundation some of the schoolmen maintained, that, if a hungry ass were placed between two bundles of hay equally inviting, the beast must stand still and starve to death. 1819 W. Irving Rip Van Winkle in Sketch Bk. i. 65 He..would rather starve on a penny than work for a pound. 1866 T. H. Huxley Lessons Elem. Physiol. vi. §7. 142 An animal..begins to starve from the moment its vital food-stuffs consist of pure amyloids or fats. 1885 ‘Mrs. Alexander’ At Bay i. 9 Pot luck, my dear fellow, but you shan't starve. 1910 A. Hilliers Master Girl i. 24 The man was starving to death. Water he did not want. 1965 A. Lurie Nowhere City xi. 105 'You want something to eat?' 'Sure, I'm starving. What've you got?' 2014 Daily Star (Lebanon) (Nexis) 16 Jan. Another 5 million starved in the famine of 1930-1933. extracted from starvev. to starve to death a. transitive. To cause to die of hunger (also to starve to death); to deprive of or keep only scantily supplied with food over a period of time. Now also hyperbolically (in passive): to be extremely hungry. †Formerly also with up. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > supply > provide or supply (something) [verb (transitive)] > keep ill-supplied to hold or keep (a person) shortc1425 strait1513 scant1565 starve1570 scantle1581 shorten1599 scant1600 scant1607 short1620 straiten1627 famish1667 limit1670 scrimp1691 under-furnish1694 stint1722 the world > life > death > killing > killing by specific method > kill [verb (transitive)] > by starving asterveOE famine1520 starve1570 to famish to deatha1649 the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > hunger > hunger for [verb (transitive)] > starve famec1384 hunger-starve1390 enfamisha1400 famisha1400 forclemc1400 famine1520 starve1570 hunger1575 clem?c1600 effamisha1603 affamish1615 the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > hunger > hunger for [verb (transitive)] > starve > to death famishc1440 starve1570 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Gii^v/1 To Sterue actiue, cibum subducere. 1583 T. Stocker tr. Tragicall Hist. Ciuile Warres Lowe Countries iii. 130 b The young children which were staruen to death, said,..Where is the bread, where is the wine. 1635 R. Johnson Hist. Tom a Lincolne (1828) 106 Wherein was left but onely the Red Rose Knight, in his Palmer's weed (for all the rest were starved up for want of food). 1653 Mercurius Democritus No. 49. 381 A poor pittifull Taylor on Shooe-lane was lately starved to death for cutting of his own throat. 1684 Bp. G. Burnet tr. T. More Utopia 140 Such as are wrought on by these Perswasions, do either starve themselves of their own accord [L. inedia sponte vitam finiunt], or they take Opium. 1718 M. Prior Alma iii, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 368 To starve a man, in law is murther. 1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 463 Oh for a law to noose the villain's neck Who starves his own. 1861 F. Nightingale Notes on Nursing (new ed.) 46 Thousands of patients are annually starved in the midst of plenty. 1932 G. Greene Stamboul Train iii. iii. 155 His parents had starved themselves that he might be a doctor, he himself had gone hungry and endangered his health that he might be a doctor. 1967 C. Potok Chosen 100 'Are you hungry, Reuven?'..'I'm starved,' I said. 1986 P. L. Fermor Between Woods & Water viii. 222 The dungeon-island of Babakai, where a pasha had chained up a runaway wife and starved her to death. 2014 Nation (Thailand) (Nexis) 29 Dec. She also alleged that her former employer would sometimes starve her for two days. extracted from starvev. to starve to death a. transitive. To cause to die of cold (also to starve to death); to benumb with cold, to freeze; (also hyperbolically) to make extremely cold. Now chiefly Scottish and English regional.Originally a spec. use of sense 4a. In quot. 1574 in figurative context. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > cause of death > cause death [verb (transitive)] > by cold starve1574 the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > make cold [verb (transitive)] > give sensation of cold to > cause to perish with cold starve1574 perish1796 the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > soil qualities > [verb (passive)] > cold for lack of drainage starve1770 1574 H. Howard Def. Eccl. Regiment in Eng. 65 Then would the froste of priuate quarel either sterue the buddes of the gospell, or the rage of spirituall ambition disturbe the pollicie of euery congregation. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxi. lviii. 427 Many a man and beast, and seven Elephants..were starved and perished [owing to the intolerable cold]. 1636 A. Cowley Sylva 486 No flower or herbe is neere it found, But a perpetuall winter sterves the ground. 1640 T. Carew Poems 45 The cold and frozen ayre had sterv'd Much poore, if not by thee preserv'd. 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 37 Their cloaths being all wet about them, most of them would have been starv'd to death in the snow. 1697 Countess D'Aunoy's Trav. (1706) 57 What occasion was there..to put me into such an open place to starve me? c1749 Mr. Bulkeley Diary 22 Feb. in B. Dew Roberts Mr. Bulkeley & Pirate (1936) ii. i. 128 The weather very moderate, but as y^e Evening proved very stormy, I am afraid the poor Children were half starved before they reached Beaumaris. 1770 Lady M. Coke Jrnl. 12 Jan. (1892) III. 203 There is not a window or door that shuts; I am starved to death at my fire side. 1844 M. Howitt tr. W. Hey Child's Picture & Verse Bk. 171 Here is it so cold; it starves us so! Would freeze us, therefore away we go! 1891 Leeds Mercury 19 Dec. 5/6 A man starved to death at Farsley. 1891 North Eastern Daily Gaz. 14 Dec. 3/2 A man starved to death in the storm..was yesterday found at Farsley quite stiff and dead with his walking stick in his hand across his breast. 1893 J. K. Snowden Tales Yorks. Wolds 158 Willie was rubbing his hands slowly before the roaring fire. ‘I'm fearful starved’, he said. 1896 G. F. Northall Warwickshire Word-bk. 227 Don't go out in this cold wind, you'll starve yourself. 1928 A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. N. Riding Yorks. 127/1 T'wind's fit ti starve yĕ. 1958 Huntly Express 30 May 2 It's ower caul', littlin'. Ye wid sterve yersel'. 1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 291/1 Put a blanket run 'im an let 'im in the fire; 'e's starved ter deeãd an' 'e's blue an' 'is teeth'r chitterin'. extracted from starvev. < as lemmas
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