Starve is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to the act of depriving oneself of food, typically for a period of time. For example, "She decided to starve herself until she lost five pounds."
This metropolitan revolution will further starve those secondary cities and towns most affected by the long decline of industry and the recession.
Do that on a big enough scale and some are bound to choose to steal rather than starve.
With the pigeon incident we are shown two opposed world-views: one that sees pigeons as food, and another that would rather see a man starve than let him use pigeons as food.
With the MDC now frozen out of government, there are concerns that corruption will run rampant while the people starve.
They are lauded for their willingness to embrace their natural shapes, rather than starve them out of existence.
I realised early on that you didn't have to go to Paris and starve in a garret to be an artist, you could do that just as easily with a piano in Muswell Hill".
They're the ones expected to starve themselves but chastized if their anorexia shows, they're the ones expected to age gracefully but mercilessly mocked when they are believed to have gotten plastic surgery.
The second way to destroy a place like Edmonton is to starve it of everything from political engagement to nightbuses.
Pre-vetting has echoes of Margaret Thatcher's 1980s tactic of trying to starve Irish republicanism of the "oxygen of publicity" which ended with Gerry Adams and other Sinn Féin spokespeople having their voices dubbed by actors.
Remember Margaret Thatcher's desire to starve terrorists of the "oxygen of publicity"?
Instead of forcing a "Grexit", the EU could trap Greece inside the eurozone and starve it of money, then simply sit back and watch the Tsipras government's domestic political support collapse.
