hunger vs starve

hunger

verb
  • To be in need of food. 

  • To have a desire (for); to long; to yearn. 

noun
  • Any strong desire. 

  • A need or compelling desire for food. 

starve

verb
  • To be very hungry. 

  • To kill with cold; to (cause to) die from cold. 

  • To die because of lack of food or of not eating. 

  • To destroy, make capitulate or at least make suffer by deprivation, notably of food. 

  • To deteriorate for want of any essential thing. 

  • To deprive of nourishment or of some vital component. 

How often have the words hunger and starve occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )