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  • 1 starve

    1) (to (cause to) die, or suffer greatly, from hunger: In the drought, many people and animals starved (to death); They were accused of starving their prisoners.) stradati
    2) (to be very hungry: Can't we have supper now? I'm starving.) biti sestradan
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    [sta:v]
    1.
    intransitive verb
    stradati, gladovati, trpeti lakoto, zelo bedno živeti; familiarly biti lačen kot volk, umirati od gladu, od lakote; postiti se; zakrneti zaradi slabe prehrane (živali, rastline); figuratively zelo hrepeneti po, koprneti, mreti ( for za čem); dialectal trpeti, umreti od mraza; colloquially biti brez, zelo pogrešati, biti lačen (česa), čutiti potrebo ( for po);
    2.
    transitive verb
    izstradati (koga), izgladovati, nezadostno hraniti, pustiti (koga) umreti od gladu (od mraza); prisiliti (koga) z gladom ( into k); pregnati (bolezen) z gladovanjem (često out)
    to starve to death — umreti, poginiti od lakote, od gladu
    to starve into submission, into surrender — z gladom prisiliti k pokorščini, k predaji
    I am simply starving figuratively umiram od gladu, lačen sem kot volk
    to be starved — trpeti glad, morati stradati

    English-Slovenian dictionary > starve

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  • hungry — hungrily, adv. hungriness, n. /hung gree/, adj. hungrier, hungriest. 1. having a desire, craving, or need for food; feeling hunger. 2. indicating, characteristic of, or characterized by hunger: He approached the table with a hungry look. 3.… …   Universalium

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  • hungry — [adj] starving; desirous athirst, avid, carnivorous, could eat a horse*, covetous, craving, eager, edacious, empty, esurient, famished, famishing, flying light*, got the munchies*, greedy, hankering, hoggish, hollow, hungered, insatiate, keen,… …   New thesaurus

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