5 Verbs to Use for the Word starving

What praise soe'er the poetry deserve, Yet every fool can bid the poet starve.

He made the circuit of them at a slow canter; in so doing he discovered the starving and fainted Thurstane lying in the high grass beneath a low shelf of stone; he saw him, he recognized him, and in an instant he trembled from head to foot.

Yea, but this expectation is it which tortures me in the mean time; [3810] futura expectans praesentibus angor, whilst the grass grows the horse starves: despair not, but hope well, "Spera Batte, tibi melius lux Crastina ducet; Dum spiras spera" Cheer up, I say, be not dismayed; Spes alit agricolas: "he that sows in tears, shall reap in joy," Psal. cxxvi.

A diminished production implies the starving down of the population to such a diminished number as may obtain leave to toil, and leave to subsist, from legislators, who, either in ignorance or selfishness, set aside nature's laws, and disregard the plainly legible ordinances of Divine Providence.

But that which spoyles all forme, & to be shorte Vice only thrives and merryt starves in courte.

5 Verbs to Use for the Word  starving