[{"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to die or perish from lack of food or nourishment.", "to be in the process of perishing or suffering severely from hunger.", "to suffer from extreme poverty and need.", "to feel a strong need or desire:The child was starving for affection.", "Chiefly British Dialect.to perish or suffer extremely from cold.", "Obsolete.to die."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to cause to starve; kill, weaken, or reduce by lack of food.", "to subdue, or force to some condition or action, by hunger:to starve a besieged garrison into a surrender.", "to cause to suffer for lack of something needed or craved.", "Chiefly British Dialect.to cause to perish, or to suffer extremely, from cold."]}]