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 Translation for 'starve' from English to Bulgarian
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VERB   to starve | starved | starved
starving | starves
SYNO to crave | to famish | to hunger | ...
to starve {verb}гладувам
to starve {verb}умирам от глад
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Translation for 'starve' from English to Bulgarian

to starve {verb}
гладувам

умирам от глад
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Usage Examples English
  • He was captured at the battle of Dan-no-ura in 1185. In 1196, Kagekiyo then allowed himself to starve to death at the new capital of Kamakura.
  • Inflation and famine will plague the earth during World War III. Though many will starve, the wealthy will enjoy the luxuries of oil and wine.
  • Blackborow proved an asset to the ship as a steward and was eventually signed on, though under the promise that he would be the first eaten should they run out of food or should the men starve.
  • The siege turned into a blockade to starve the city.
  • During the winter of 1872-1873, Bad Face refused to settle on a farm at the Malheur Reservation, despite his daughter Sarah's asking him to join her. He said he might starve there.

  • One of the problems in this algorithm is failure of a node. In such a situation a process may starve forever.
  • In the past, the denial of food deliveries has been used as a weapon in war. For example, during both world wars, the British naval blockade was intended to starve Germany into submission.
  • According to one account, after comparing a painting he had copied from Titian, he was said to have stated "Poor little Tit, how he would starve !".
  • Between 1878 and 1880 a famine decimated the island's population. Many who did not starve left. The remaining population of St. Lawrence Island was nearly all Siberian Yupik.
  • Their slogan "We'd rather starve quick than starve slow" summed up the depth of their bitterness against the sweatshops in which the many women and immigrant workers worked in.

  • As the shrew feeds on insects and intakes more food than their body mass within a short period, when deprived of food, the gray shrew will starve to death in hours.
  • In a 1942 paper published by The Johns Hopkins University Press, the "feed a cold, starve a fever" adage was determined to be justified according to medical knowledge.
  • He was said to be generous in gold but would starve his men of food. He was a great warrior who often pillaged and gathered great amounts of loot.
  • Seven men and women have gathered for “Rite of Death by Starvation”. They isolated themselves with the intention of dying, but they must starve together as a group.
  • The farm features in Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the D'urbervilles" as Flintcomb-Ash, the "starve-acre" farm where Tess goes to dig swedes with Marion.

  • A big disadvantage of complex biological sewage treatment systems is that if the house is empty, the sewage system biota may starve to death.
  • In 1983, the facility captured the attention of the country as a patient demanded the hospital help her starve to death.
  • The opera follows an American family in the near future who slowly starve as war rages. One day, a man in a dog suit arrives on their property howling for scraps.
  • One after another, the fugitives are found. Most are shot, but many of the prisoners freeze or starve to death in the harsh winter.
  • In fact, the solutions implied by both problem statements can result in starvation — the first one may starve writers in the queue, and the second one may starve readers.

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