starve
verb (used without object)
to die or perish from lack of food or nourishment.
Used to describe an action that will be fully completed or achieved by a specific point in the future.
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During that same day, 10,000 persons, on an average, will have starved to death or died from malnutrition.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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