1. Suffering from lack of food
   "The starved refugees desperately needed food aid";
   - starving
    
2. Extremely hungry
   "the family was starved and ragged";
   - famished, ravenous, sharp-set, esurient

1. Be hungry; go without food
   "Let's eat — I'm starving!";
   - hunger, famish
    
2. Die of food deprivation
   "The political prisoners starved to death";
   - famish
    
3. Deprive of food
   "They starved the prisoners";
   - famish
    
4. Deprive of a necessity and cause suffering
   "he is starving her of love"; "The engine was starved of fuel"
    
5. [informal] Have a craving, appetite, or great desire for
   "She was starving for attention";
   - crave, hunger, thirst, lust

See also: hungry, malnourished

Type of: ache, buy the farm [N. Amer, informal], cash in [informal], cash in one's chips [informal], conk [informal], cop it [Brit, informal], croak [informal], decease [archaic], deprive, desire, die, drop dead [informal], exit, expire, flatline [informal], give up the ghost [informal], go, hurt, kick the bucket [informal], pass, pass away, pass on, perish, pop off [informal], pop one's clogs [informal], snuff it [informal], suffer, want

Encyclopedia: Starved