People who are starved of sleep start to lose their concentration and may hallucinate.

The meaning of STARVE is to perish from lack of food. How to use starve in a sentence.

1. To cause to starve. 2. To force to a specified state by starving: starved the town into submission.

starved Add to list Other forms: starvedly Definitions of starved adjective suffering from lack of food synonyms: starving

Definition of starve verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. [intransitive, transitive] to suffer or die because you do not have enough food to eat; to make somebody suffer or die in …

I'm starved/starving. to (cause to) feel a strong need or desire: [be + ~-ing + for + object] The child is starving for affection. [~ + object] The children were being starved of affection.

starved, adj. meanings, etymology, pronunciation and more in the Oxford English Dictionary

Sep 11, 2025 · (colloquial, hyperbolic, emphatic) Extremely hungry. quotations I’m starved! I haven’t eaten since breakfast.

If a person or thing is starved of something that they need, they are suffering because they are not getting enough of it.

STARVE definition: to die or perish from lack of food or nourishment. See examples of starve used in a sentence.