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• slowly: They pick up hooks, line and weights while feeding and slowly starve to death.

Object

• million: They care about the starving millions in the Third World.

• refugee: By the end of April, over 1 million GBP of supplies had been air dropped to the starving refugees.

• tumor: Special high fat diets can help to keep the body's energy needs supplied whilst starving the tumor.

• baby: He has taken food from his starving babies to give to an idol that does not consume it.

Preposition: in

• midst: Bees can also starve in the midst of plenty.

Modifying Another Word

• literally: Thos who take a stand will be literally starved to death in funding terms.

• systematically: For too long Britain's railways were systematically starved of investment.

• deliberately: Soviet soldiers who had been taken prisoner had been deliberately starved to death.

Preposition: of

• oxygen: The brain is starved of oxygen, which causes the damage.

• cash: The NHS, like so many places, is starved of cash.

• possession: Wingers Sam and John, devastating in recent weeks, were being starved of possession and Lisbie cut a lonely figure up front.

• investment: For too long Britain's railways were systematically starved of investment.

• fund: Such publications are a good breeding ground for new ideas but if starved of funds they too easily become extinct.