affamer

Je faillirais à tous mes devoirs en affamant un enfant en pleine croissance.
I would be neglecting my duties if I didn't get a growing boy fed, wouldn't I?
Comment le rembourser ? On ne pouvait pas avoir cet argent même en nous affamant.
We don't have that kind of money.
Plutôt que d’attaquer, il a ordonné à ses troupes de construire un mur fortifié à travers l’isthme, dans l’espoir d’obtenir la reddition des esclaves en les affamant.
Instead of attacking, he ordered his troops to build a wall across the isthmus, in an attempt to starve the slaves into submission.
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