Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“starves” is a form of

starve

UK /stɑːv/ · US /stɑɹv/ verb

Forms starves starving starved starvest starvedst starveth starven sterve

  1. verb (intransitive) To die because of lack of food or of not eating.
  2. verb (intransitive) To suffer severely because of lack of food or of not eating.
  3. verb (intransitive) To be very hungry. “I was starving so I wrote S.O.S. on the desert island using rocks.”
  4. verb (transitive) To kill or attempt to kill by depriving of food.
  5. verb (transitive) To make suffer severely by depriving of food.
  6. verb (transitive) To force a combatant to submit or surrender by depriving of food, as in a targeted siege. “If they refuse to surrender the garrison, we'll just starve them out.”
  7. verb (transitive, dated) To force a population center to submit or surrender by depriving of food, as in sieges in international armed conflicts. “Some historians have since classified the Siege of Leningrad as a genocide due to the intentional destruction of the city and the systematic starvation of its civilian population.”
  8. verb (transitive) To deprive of nourishment or of some vital component. “The uncaring parents starved the child of love.”

Synonyms

famish hunger crave thirst lust

Antonyms

be full feed

Etymology

From Middle English sterven (“to die, perish”), from Old English steorfan (“to die, perish”), from Proto-West Germanic *sterban, from Proto-Germanic *sterbaną (“to become stiff, die”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)terp- (“to lose strength, become numb, be motionless”); or from Proto-Indo-European *sterbʰ- (“to become stiff”), from *ster- (“stiff”); or a conflation of the aforementioned. Cognate with Scots stairve, sterve (“to die, perish, starve”), Saterland Frisian stjerwa (“to die”), West Frisian stjerre (“to die”), Dutch sterven (“to die”), German Low German starven (“to die”), German sterben (“to die”), Icelandic stirfinn (“peevish, froward”), Albanian shterp (“sterile, unproductive, barren land”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To die; to perish. [Obs., except in the sense of perishing with cold or hunger.] Lydgate.
  2. verb To perish with hunger; to suffer extreme hunger or want; to be very indigent.
  3. verb To destroy with cold. [Eng.]
  4. verb To kill with hunger; as, maliciously to starve a man is, in law, murder.

Etymology [OE. sterven to die, AS. steorfan; akin to D. sterven, G. sterben, OHG. sterban, Icel. starf labor, toil.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “starve”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “starve” (best matches first).