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How to pronounce “starve”

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Pronunciation guide for starve

Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of starve with real speech in context.
Available examples: 8 YouTube examples
Real speech example: Time Traveling with AI to Connect with Lost Loved Onesand her family was sealed to starve inside the Warsaw Ghetto.
Definition summary: (intransitive) To die because of lack of food or of not eating.

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Time Traveling with AI to Connect with Lost Loved Ones

and her family was sealed to starve inside the Warsaw Ghetto.

[Verb]
(intransitive) To die because of lack of food or of not eating.
(intransitive) To suffer severely because of lack of food or of not eating.
(intransitive) To be very hungry.
(transitive) To kill or attempt to kill by depriving of food.
(transitive) To make suffer severely by depriving of food.
(transitive) To force a combatant to submit or surrender by depriving of food, as in a targeted siege.
(transitive, dated) To force a population center to submit or surrender by depriving of food, as in sieges in international armed conflicts.
(transitive) To deprive of nourishment or of some vital component.
(intransitive) To deteriorate for want of any essential thing.
(transitive, British, especially Yorkshire and Lancashire) To kill with cold; to (cause to) die from cold.
(intransitive, obsolete) To die; in later use especially to die slowly, waste away.

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