Starves vs Starved - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between starves and starved

is that starves is (starve) while starved is (starve).

approaching starvation, emaciated and malnourished.

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(starve)

(wikipedia starve)

(obsolete) To die; in later use especially to die slowly, waste away.

* 1596 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , IV.i.4:

noble Britomart / Released her, that else was like to sterue , / Through cruell knife that her deare heart did kerue.

To die because of lack of food or of not eating.

To be very hungry.

Hey, ma, I'm starving !

To destroy, make capitulate or at least make suffer by deprivation, notably of food.

To deprive of nourishment.

They starved the child until it withered away.

(transitive, British, especially Yorkshire and Lancashire) To kill with cold.

I was half starved waiting out in that wind.

* starvation * starveling * starving

(en adjective)

Approaching starvation, emaciated and malnourished.

(colloquial) Extremely hungry.

I'm starved , I haven't eaten since breakfast.

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(starve)