To starve someone means not to give them any food. He said the only alternative was to starve the people, and he said this could not be allowed to happen Judy decided I was starving myself
To destroy, make capitulate or at least make suffer by deprivation, notably of food
die of food deprivation; "The political prisoners starved to death"; "Many famished in the countryside during the drought" deprive of food; "They starved the prisoners" deprive of a necessity and cause suffering; "he is starving her of love"; "The engine was starved of fuel" be hungry; go without food; "Let's eat--I'm starving!
To destroy by want of any kind; as, to starve plans by depriving them of proper light and air