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to starve; to be famished; to be hungry
to be starved of (e.g. love); to be thirsty for (e.g. knowledge); to be hungry for
情報に饑えた研究者が資料を求めていた。
Researchers hungry for information sought out materials.
貧しい村の人々は食べ物に饑えていた。
The people in the poor village were starving for food.
三日間食べられずに饑えた。
He went without food for three days and starved.