starvate

present singular third person starvates · participle present starvating · participle past starvated · past starvated

1. nonstandardnon-native speakers' EnglishSynonym of starve.

   Feed intake of pullets alternatively starvated was the same as in full fed group.

   1976, European Poultry Conference - Volume 1, page 84

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   The starvated individuals lose body weight; their body weight reduced to less than half the initiat weight.

   1951, Mie Kenritsu Daigaku, Suisan Gakubu, Report of the Faculty of Fisheries, Prefectural University of Mie

   In addition, they cancel a negative correlation between the changes in the blood sugar level and the food intake which was previously established on the basis of determinations, performed in starvated rabbits, in the morning and in the evening.

   1964, Acta Biologiae Experimentalis - Volumes 24-26, page 236

   For our experiments we chose starvated and well fed animals /with very low and very high glycogen concentrations in their livers/ and compared the concentration of the initial and final metabolites of anaerobic glycolysis.

   1973, Scientific papers of the Institute of Chemical Technology, Prague: Food

   On the other hand, in sham-operated or starvated groups, fetal body weight gain was not suppressed.

   1985, Masakuni Suzuki, Nobuaki Furuhashi, Perinatal care and gestosis, →ISBN

   This is most probably explained by the rapid growth of calves, their susceptibility to starvate over the course of winter and their nutritional dependence on the winter forage dug available from beneath the snow by their mothers.

   1992, Eero Tikkanen, Martti Varmola, Tuija Katermaa, Symposium on the State of the Environment and Environmental Monitoring in Northern Fennoscandia and the Kola Peninsula, →ISBN

   Synonyms: starve