starve
v.v. to suffer or die because you do not have enough food to eat. You can also use it in a light way to say you are very hungry.
v. to suffer severely or perish from a lack of food; to cause a person or animal to suffer in this manner. Often used hyperbolically in informal speech to indicate extreme hunger.
If we don't eat soon, I'm going to starve.
The explorers were forced to eat their leather boots to avoid starving during the long winter.
The documentary highlights how political instability can starve a population even when the surrounding regions have a surplus of agricultural resources.
From Middle English sterven (“to die, perish”), from Old English steorfan (“to die, perish”), from Proto-West Germanic sterban, from Proto-Germanic sterbaną (“to become stiff, die”), from Proto-Indo-European (s)terp- (“to lose strength, become numb, be motionless”); or from Proto-Indo-European sterbʰ- (“to become stiff”), from *ster- (“stiff”); or a conflation of the aforementioned. Cognate with Scots stairve, sterve (“to die, perish, starve”), Saterland Frisian stjerwa (“to die”), West Frisian stjerre (“to die”), Dutch sterven (“to die”), German Low German starven (“to die”), German sterben (“to die”), Icelandic stirfinn (“peevish, froward”), Albanian shterp (“sterile, unproductive, barren land”).
The verb is intransitive when referring to the state of hunger, but transitive when used to mean 'to deprive someone of food'.
I am starving of a sandwichI am starving for a sandwichWhen expressing a strong desire for something due to hunger, use the preposition 'for' rather than 'of'.