What is another word for starve out?

Pronunciation: [stˈɑːv ˈa͡ʊt] (IPA)

"Starve out" is a phrase we often use to describe the act of forcing someone or something to surrender by depriving them of resources, usually food or money. However, there are several alternative phrases that convey the same meaning, including "deprive of sustenance," "cut off supplies," "isolate and weaken," "stranglehold," "blockade and choke," and "exhaust resources." Each alternative phrase emphasizes a different aspect of the act, but they all convey the deliberate intention to hunger something out until it collapses in weakness and surrenders its power. Regardless of the phrase used, the underlying aim remains the same: to starve out the opposition until it can no longer resist.

What are the hypernyms for Starve out?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Famous quotes with Starve out

  • Enlightenment can't be pursued or sought after. [...] Truth is here now; no past, no future. People are unenlightened only because they believe in the truth of the past and therefore must look to the rewards of the future. To be enlightened, to return to the original state of life on earth, requires action now in the present with no reference to the past. What has to be done is to kill the old priest in you, starve out the traditionalist, the follower, the believer.
    Barry Long
  • You assumed that no other guarantees than those you asked were possible, and you determined deliberately, in cold anger, to starve out one third of the population of the city, to break the manhood of the men by the sight of the suffering of their wives and the hunger of their children. We read in the Dark Ages of the rack and thumb screw. But these iniquities were hidden and concealed from the knowledge of men in dungeons and torture chambers. Even in the Dark Ages, humanity could not endure the sight of such suffering, and it learnt of such misuse of power by slow degrees, through rumour, and when it was certain it razed its Bastilles to their foundations. It remained for the twentieth century and the capital city of Ireland to see an oligarchy of four hundred masters deciding openly upon starving one hundred thousand people, and refusing to consider any solution except that fixed by their pride. You, masters, asked men to do that which masters of labour in any other city in these islands had not dared to do. You insolently demanded of those men who were members of a trade union that they should resign from that union; and from those who were not members, you insisted on a vow that they would never join it.
    George William Russell

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