starved to death
Died from hunger
Starved to death describes dying from lack of food.
The phrase emphasizes the completeness of starvation—not merely hungry or malnourished, but fatally so: Thousands starved to death during the famine.
Often used hyperbolically: I'm starving to death over here—when's dinner?
- hunger pangsPainful emptiness craving food
- empty stomachDigestive tract without food
- malnutritionDisease from dietary inadequacy
- famineSevere food shortage
- Irish famine1840s crop failure catastrophe
caloric deficit · wasting away · poverty · suffering · catabolism · ketosis · despair · crop failure · humanitarian crisis · hypoglycemia · emaciation · skin and bones · resource scarcity · organ failure · neglect · cachexia · muscle atrophy · weakness