give-up the ghost vs starve

give-up the ghost and starve both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
give-up the ghost	No	No	Yes	No
starve	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, starve is a hyponym of give-up the ghost; that is, starve is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than give-up the ghost:

give-up the ghost: pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
starve: die of food deprivation

Other hyponyms of give-up the ghost include abort, asphyxiate, stifle, suffocate, buy it, pip out, drown, predecease, famish, fall, succumb, yield.

give-up the ghost (verb)	starve (verb)
pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life	be hungry; go without food
	have a craving, appetite, or great desire for
	die of food deprivation
	deprive of food
	deprive of a necessity and cause suffering

give-up the ghost vs starve

give-up the ghost and starve both are verbs.

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