1. 挨饿;饿死
    If people starve, they suffer greatly from lack of food which sometimes leads to their death.

    e.g. A number of the prisoners we saw are starving...
           我们看到的一些囚犯快要饿死了。
    e.g. In the 1930s, millions of Ukrainians starved to death or were deported...
           在 20 世纪 30 年代，有几百万乌克兰人饿死或被驱逐出境。

2. 使挨饿
    To starve someone means not to give them any food.

    e.g. He said the only alternative was to starve the people, and he said this could not be allowed to happen...
           他说唯一的其他选择就是让人们挨饿，又说这是绝对不允许发生的。
    e.g. Judy decided I was starving myself.
           朱迪认定我在让自己挨饿。

3. 使极其缺乏;使迫切需要
    If a person or thing is starved of something that they need, they are suffering because they are not getting enough of it.

    e.g. The electricity industry is not the only one to have been starved of investment...
           投资严重缺乏的不光是电力工业。
    e.g. The most damaging thing the West could do is to starve Russia of new foreign capital.
           西方能够祭出的最阴险一招就是不让俄罗斯得到新的外资。