starvate

starvate

English

Etymology

Back-formation from starvation.

Verb

starvate (third-person singular simple present starvates, present participle starvating, simple past and past participle starvated)

1. (nonstandard) Synonym of starve
   • 1951, Mie Kenritsu Daigaku & Suisan Gakubu, Report of the Faculty of Fisheries, Prefectural University of Mie:

     The starvated individuals lose body weight; their body weight reduced to less than half the initiat weight.

   • 1964, Acta Biologiae Experimentalis - Volumes 24-26, page 236:

     In addition, they cancel a negative correlation between the changes in the blood sugar level and the food intake which was previously established on the basis of determinations, performed in starvated rabbits, in the morning and in the evening.

   • 1973, Scientific papers of the Institute of Chemical Technology, Prague: Food:

     For our experiments we chose starvated and well fed animals /with very low and very high glycogen concentrations in their livers/ and compared the concentration of the initial and final metabolites of anaerobic glycolysis.

   • 1976, European Poultry Conference - Volume 1, page 84:

     Feed intake of pullets alternatively starvated was the same as in full fed group.

   • 1985, Masakuni Suzuki & ‎Nobuaki Furuhashi, Perinatal care and gestosis, →ISBN:

     On the other hand, in sham-operated or starvated groups, fetal body weight gain was not suppressed.

   • 1992, Eero Tikkanen, ‎Martti Varmola, & ‎Tuija Katermaa, Symposium on the State of the Environment and Environmental Monitoring in Northern Fennoscandia and the Kola Peninsula, →ISBN:

     This is most probably explained by the rapid growth of calves, their susceptibility to starvate over the course of winter and their nutritional dependence on the winter forage dug available from beneath the snow by their mothers.

   • 2003, Tang-Long Shen, Focal adhesion kinase and Grb7 in integrin signaling in cell migration:

     Compared to wild type Grb7, this isoform does not respond to EGF and is not dephosphorylated in serum-starvated quiescent conditions presumably due to its inability to bind to EGF receptors or PHPTP2 (314).

   • 2010, Z. Ogumi, Battery/Energy Technology (General) - 216th ECS Meeting, →ISBN:

     Secondly, the model is currently designed for a fully-hydrated membrane under fuel-starvated conditions.

Usage notes

• Generally an error made by non-native speakers.