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 Translation for 'to starve' from English to Italian
VERB   to starve | starved | starved
starving | starves
SYNO to crave | to famish | to hunger | ...
soffrire la fameto starve
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Translation for 'to starve' from English to Italian

to starve
soffrire la fame
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Usage Examples English
  • radius around Ruijin to starve the communists. In addition, more than 1,000 trucks were to be mobilized in a rapid-reaction force to prevent a communist breakout.
  • When properly defended, they had the choice whether to assault the castle directly or to starve the people out by blocking food deliveries, or to employ war machines specifically designed to destroy or circumvent castle defenses.
  • The primary problem was that in order to make the diet of the workhouse inmates "less eligible" than what they could expect outside, it would be necessary to starve the inmates beyond an acceptable level.
  • The IFN-γ-mediated activation of IDO and TDO is an evolutionary mechanism that serves to starve the parasite, but it can result in depletion of tryptophan in the brain of the host.
  • Refusing conventional treatments involving chemotherapy, Sheene instead opted for a holistic approach involving a strict diet devised by Austrian healer Rudolf Breuss, intended to starve the cancer of nourishment.

  • The man, a lowly servant recently fired, is contemplating whether to starve to death or to become a thief to survive in the barren times.
  • Upon Hyrcanus' death in 104 BCE, however, Aristobulus I jailed his three brothers (including Alexander Jannaeus) and his mother and allowed her to starve there.
  • The refortified fortress would have made an excellent base for raiding northern Mercia, but the Mercians are recorded as having taken the drastic measure of destroying all crops and livestock in the surrounding countryside to starve the Vikings out.
  • Waiting and trying to starve Blagge out would give the king time to build his forces.
  • ... drought) may cause the industrially based country to starve.

  • During the Second World War in the Battle of the Atlantic, Germany tried again to starve Britain into surrender, but again was unsuccessful.
  • His accusations against Louis and Claudia result in Louis being locked in a coffin to starve, while Claudia and Madeleine are locked in an open courtyard.
  • So jets sized for full power tend to starve the engine at lower speed and part throttle.
  • Saturninus and Traianus built a number of fortifications to contain the Gothic camp, hoping to starve them out during the winter of 377/8 and to force them into an open field battle.
  • Once the organ is removed from the donor, blood no longer perfuses through the vessels and begins to starve the cells of oxygen (ischemia).

  • If Granby's grief at his son's loss was saddening, the crippling reductions to The Blues, according to William Pitt the Elder doomed "the bravest men the world ever saw to be sent to starve in country villages and forget their prowess."
  • In the year 1505, a major drought resulted in widespread crop failure, and thus a large portion of the population of central Mexico began to starve.
  • A German contingent of the crusade overran the castle Xerigordon and held it until Kilij sent a force to starve them out.
  • Guy, his brothers, and cousins were imprisoned at Fort Nephin and left to starve; his followers were blinded and the Templars were summarily executed.
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