English to Icelandic Meaning of starve - svelta

Starve :
svelta

svelta, hratt, barnlausa, spilla

sveltaStarvedstarvelingstarvelingssveltursveltandistarvings
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Definitions of starve in English
Verb(1) be hungry; go without food(2) die of food deprivation(3) deprive of food(4) have a craving, appetite, or great desire for(5) deprive of a necessity and cause suffering
Examples of starve in English
(1) It sounds, through the distribution of land and the distribution of food, like the government is trying to hold on to control and starve its enemies into submission.(2) If it is wrong to whip a dog or starve a horse or bait bears for sport or grossly abuse farm animals, it is wrong for all people in every place.(3) I cannot trust a man who will starve children to death and think nothing of it.(4) she left her animals to starve(5) But we could starve the beast to death by ceasing to provide its main source of food: our money.(6) Sure, you deal crack on the side, you beat your wife, you starve your kids, but you're straight and you go to church, so we're here to save you.(7) The primary objective of this campaign is to starve terrorists of essential funding and technical supportÔǪ(8) Since you, his loving owner, have the power to either feed or starve your pet, your dog looks to you as its only supplier of food.(9) German U-boats hoping to starve Britain into submission(10) Then we have the so called pet lovers who starve the family pet dog till his skeletal bone structure protrudes through its limp flesh.(11) Dentistry is perhaps an even better example - only when the NHS dentistry system was starved of funds did we see a major change to private treatment and insurance - and even there you actually had to pay to get most NHS treatment anyway.(12) There is no cause to regret the passing of that system - millions of peasants starved to death - and those who now point to the absence of school fees in that period are at any rate one-sided.(13) ÔÇÿWe will root them out and starve them out ,ÔÇÖ Rumsfeld said, just before closing a news conference with a ringing declaration: ÔÇÿWe are determined not to be terrorized.ÔÇÖ(14) Firefighters were called in after fears grew that the black cats - who are yet to open their eyes - might have starved to death.(15) Instead, the state tried to starve us out for our agricultural unorthodoxy, then they charged us with starvation.(16) Again, we could have blockaded and starved them out but that was not necessary.
Related Phrases of starve
(1) to starve ::
að svelta
(2) starve to death ::
svelta til dauða
Synonyms
Verb
1. famish ::
famish
2. lust ::
losta
Different Forms
starve, starved, starveling, starvelings, starves, starving, starvings
Word Example from TV Shows
- What would you do then? - Starve, most likely.

- What would you do then? - Starve, most likely.

Game of Thrones Season 1, Episode 8

Can't very well let the dragons starve, that's obvious.

Can't very well let the dragons STARVE, that's obvious.

Game of Thrones Season 6, Episode 2

I can't let you starve.

I can't let you STARVE.

Game of Thrones Season 4, Episode 1

If we don't act, we'll all starve here. All of us.

If we don't act, we'll all STARVE here. All of us.

Game of Thrones Season 5, Episode 9

...leaving the ordinary siblings to starve to death.

...leaving the ordinary siblings to STARVE to death.

The Big Bang Theory Season 1, Episode 15

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