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were starved

verb

To die; in later use especially to die slowly, waste away.

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They were starved and beaten.

"They were starved for a quarter-century.

Alexandria's black residents were starved for books in the 1930s.

Against Sunderland Van Persie and Rooney were starved of chances.

The unlucky were starved to death, bayoneted or beheaded.

"When I visited, these kids were starved for human contact, just begging to be touched.

The Athenians were starved into surrender by Lysander (404).

The Jews before them were starved; they had the furtive gaze of hunted animals.

Cells were starved for 24 hours and then challenged with EGF.

People were starved of culture and went in droves to the cinema.

Worms were starved in the presence of 2 μL 100% benzaldehyde in the benzaldehyde trained control.

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