Usually means: Deprives oneself or another of nourishment.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. starves: Merriam-Webster
  2. starves: Collins English Dictionary
  3. starves: Vocabulary.com
  4. Starves, starves: Wordnik
  5. starves: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. starves: Wiktionary
  7. starves: Dictionary.com
  8. starves: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. starves: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. starves: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. starves: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. starves: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (starve)

verb:  (intransitive) To die because of lack of food or of not eating.
verb:  (intransitive) To be very hungry.
verb:  (transitive) To kill or attempt to kill by depriving of food.
verb:  (transitive) To destroy, make capitulate or at least make suffer by deprivation, notably of food.
verb:  (transitive) To deprive of nourishment or of some vital component.
verb:  (intransitive) To deteriorate for want of any essential thing.
verb:  (transitive, British, especially Yorkshire and Lancashire) To kill with cold; to (cause to) die from cold.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To die; in later use especially to die slowly, waste away.
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