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Tommy Tran
2022-01-17 01:01
Starve out phrasal verb
A noun or pronoun can be used between "starve" and "out."
To make someone leave a place or force them to submit by preventing them from eating anything.
Once, I was locking myself in my bedroom. My mother starved me out for 2 days, so I had to come out and apologised.
A : How did you get him to tell the truth? B : I starved him out for a week.
The verb "starve" should be conjugated according to its tense.
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Manage to earn enough money to buy food and other essential things
She works two jobs at the same time in order to keep the wolf from the door.
