Starve vs X - What's the difference?
starve | x |
(obsolete) To die; in later use especially to die slowly, waste away.
* 1596 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , IV.i.4:
To die because of lack of food or of not eating.
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To be very hungry.
To destroy, make capitulate or at least make suffer by deprivation, notably of food.
To deprive of nourishment.
(transitive, British, especially Yorkshire and Lancashire) To kill with cold.
The twenty-fourth letter of the .
Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur
Roman numerals
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As a verb starve
is (obsolete) to die; in later use especially to die slowly, waste away.As a letter x is
the twenty-fourth letter of the.As a symbol x is
voiceless velar fricative.starve
English
(wikipedia starve)Verb
- noble Britomart / Released her, that else was like to sterue , / Through cruell knife that her deare heart did kerue.
- Hey, ma, I'm starving !
- They starved the child until it withered away.
- I was half starved waiting out in that wind.
