The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sterve \Sterve\ (st[~e]rv), v. t. & i.
To die, or cause to die; to perish. See Starve. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.
--Spenser.
Usage examples of "sterve".
For weal or woe she will him not forsake: She is not weary him to love and serve, Though that he lie bedrid until he sterve.
For weal or woe she will him not forsake: She is not weary him to love and serve, Though that he lie bedrid until he sterve.
For as by wey of possibilitee, Sith thou art at thy large of prisoun free, And art a lord, greet is thyn avauntage Moore than is myn, that sterve here in a cage.
I wol noon of the apostles countrefete, I wol have moneie, wolle, chese, and whete, Al were it yeven of the povereste page, Or of the povereste wydwe in a village, Al sholde hir children sterve for famyne.
But I, that am exiled and bareyne Of alle grace, and in so greet dispeir That ther nys erthe, water, fir, ne eir, Ne creature, that of hem maked is, That may me heelp, or doon confort in this, Wel oughte I sterve in wanhope and distresse, Farwel, my lif, my lust, and my galdnesse!
With torment and with shameful deeth echon This Provost dooth the Jewes for to sterve, That of this mordre wiste, and that anon.