Starve

morrer de fome
definition
verb
she left her animals to starve
(of a person or animal) suffer severely or die from hunger.
pull down that window for we are perfectly starving here
be freezing cold.
translation of 'starve'
verb
fazer passar fome a,
morrer de fome,
morrer à míngua,
matar à fome,
passar fome,
estar esfomeado,
morrer de inanição
example
she left her animals to 'starve'
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.
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.
I cannot trust a man who will 'starve' children to death and think nothing of it.
German U-boats hoping to 'starve' Britain into submission
German U-boats hoping to 'starve' Britain into submission
But we could 'starve' the beast to death by ceasing to provide its main source of food: our money.
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.
she left her animals to 'starve'
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.
The primary objective of this campaign is to 'starve' terrorists of essential funding and technical support…
Then we have the so called pet lovers who 'starve' the family pet dog till his skeletal bone structure protrudes through its limp flesh.
But what her parents say is we can't stand by as a loving mom and dad and watch her be 'starved' or dehydrated to death.
They would not give me a pinch of flour even if I 'starved' to death.
For example, if you 'starved' a dog and chained it in the back yard for 6 months, you would be sentenced to an outdoor cage with as little food as you gave the dog.
It was getting near to midday and I was 'starving' hungry.
Letters were piled up behind the door, but no food or drink was found in the flat and it is feared she may have 'starved' to death after becoming too afraid to go outside.
Police believe they 'starved' to death in Dutroux's dungeon when he went to jail for four months in December, 1995, for stealing a car.
This is a regime that 'starves' its own people so that it can do these things.
While some were executed, others, malnourished and 'starving' , were forced to carry out labour beyond their physical capabilities.
He's 'starved' them of food and equipment, and he brutally purges their officers with an almost banal regularity.
The government was the chief agency that offered work for the poor and saved them from 'starvation' .
She wished that when she opened her eyes, there would be a plate of steaming waffles next to her… because she was ravenously 'starving' .
Vets estimated the dog, which had ripped the house apart in its frantic search for food, 'starved' to death over eight weeks.
Mullan speaks about his children with affection, something he 'was starved of' by his own father, Charles.
Most of them died of 'starvation' , disease or brutality at the hands of the prison authorities.
The nuclear submarine lobby, known in the Navy as the ‘Black Mafia’, went ruthlessly for Trident, even though it might mean that the rest of the Navy 'was starved of' funds.
Some see another step towards the triumph of euthanasia - they stop at the idea of someone being 'starved' against the wishes of her parents, and there's not another fact that matters.
University chiefs have warned that more than 100 arts and science departments are at risk of closure after 'being starved of' research funds, writes Gareth Walsh.
My great-grandfather and his 26 year old daughter had been executed; his 34 year old son had frozen and 'starved' to death in the Arctic gold mines of Kolyma.
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