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

starve out

phrasal verb
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starve somebody out (of something)
  1. to force somebody to leave a particular building or area by not allowing them to get any food
    • If they won’t come out, we’ll starve them out!
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