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To '''starve''' is to die from lack of nutrition.  Starvation was a permanent spectre of the [[medieval]] era, a time that lacked refrigeration or all but the most basic methods of [[food]] preservation.  One bad harvest could cause widespread starvation and [[famine]].

A [[siege]] was an attempt to "starve out" a fortified position, that is, to cut off the flow of supplies and force the defenders to surrender before their supplies ran out.
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