starve into doing
phrasal verbstarve somebody into something/into doing something
- to force somebody to do something by not allowing them to get any food or money
断绝食物(或资金)来源以迫使某人做某事 - The blockade was aimed at starving the country into submission.
封锁的目的是让这个国家忍饥挨饿。
- The blockade was aimed at starving the country into submission.