Word.ws English Dictionary

starve meaning in Tamil

பட்டினி கிட

UK/stɑːv//stɑɹv/

starve in Tamil: பட்டினி கிட. In English, starve means to die because of lack of food or of not eating.

Tamil words for starve

பட்டினி கிட

English meaning of starve

  1. verb To die because of lack of food or of not eating.
  2. verb To suffer severely because of lack of food or of not eating.
  3. verb To be very hungry.
  4. verb To kill or attempt to kill by depriving of food.

Full definition of starve

starve in a sentence

  • I was starving so I wrote S.O.S. on the desert island using rocks.
  • If they refuse to surrender the garrison, we'll just starve them out.
  • Some historians have since classified the Siege of Leningrad as a genocide due to the intentional destruction of the city and the systematic starvation of its civilian population.

Synonyms of starve

starve in other languages

Questions about starve in Tamil

What is the meaning of starve in Tamil?
Starve in Tamil is பட்டினி கிட.
starve என்பதன் தமிழ் அர்த்தம் என்ன?
Starve: பட்டினி கிட.
What does starve mean in English?
Starve means to die because of lack of food or of not eating.

Source and license

Tamil words from Tamil Wiktionary: starve (page history and authors). English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: starve (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Tamil words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: en-us-starve.ogg.

Cite this page: “starve meaning in Tamil.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/tamil/starve. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.