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Definition of starve into doing phrasal verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

starve into doing

phrasal verb
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starve somebody into something/into doing something
  1. to force somebody to do something by not allowing them to get any food or money
    • The blockade was aimed at starving the country into submission.
See starve into doing in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary
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