If a person or thing is starved of something that they need, they are suffering because they are not getting enough of it. 使极其缺乏
adjective [原级] 饥饿的，极度饥饿的，饥肠辘辘的（常作表语，口语中表示“饿极了”）；缺乏……的，急需……的（常构成 be starved of/for，或用于复合词）
They starved but only could eat a piece of stale bread every day. 他们饿了，但每天只能吃一块不新鲜的面包。
verb [vt. 及物动词] starve 的过去式和过去分词：挨饿；饿死；使挨饿；使匮乏
As a child, she was starved of intellectual nourishment. 作为一个孩子，她渴望吸取知识的养分。
