{
    "term": "starve",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "starve",
            "heSheIt": "starves"
        },
        "pastSimple": "starved",
        "pastParticiple": "starved",
        "ingForm": "starving"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to suffer or die because you do not have enough food to eat; to make somebody suffer or die in this way",
            "sensetop": "starve somebody/yourself",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The animals were left to **starve to death**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "pictures of starving children"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The new job doesn't pay as much but we won't starve!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She's starving herself to try to lose weight.",
                    "contextForm": "starve somebody/yourself"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Many of the prisoners looked half starved."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He locked them in a room and left them to starve."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She refused food and literally starved herself to death."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The poor cat was half starved."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Their policies will leave innocent children starving in the streets."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Social issues"],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["slowly", "literally"],
                "verb + starve": ["leave somebody to"],
                "preposition": ["for", "of"],
                "phrases": [
                    "be half starved",
                    "keep somebody from starving",
                    "starve in the streets"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "not having something that you need",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "supply-starved rebels"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to feel very hungry",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "When's the food coming? I'm starving!"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Feelings", "Cooking and eating"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/stɑːv/",
                "audio": "st/starve/starve__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/stɑːvz/",
                "audio": "st/starve/starves__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/stɑːvd/",
                "audio": "st/starve/starved__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈstɑːvɪŋ/",
                "audio": "st/starve/starving__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/stɑːrv/",
                "audio": "st/starve/starve__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/stɑːrvz/",
                "audio": "st/starve/starves__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/stɑːrvd/",
                "audio": "st/starve/starved__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈstɑːrvɪŋ/",
                "audio": "st/starve/starving__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English steorfan ‘to die’, of Germanic origin, probably from a base meaning ‘be rigid’ (compare with stare); related to Dutch sterven and German sterben."
}