starve
verb (used without object)
to die or perish from lack of food or nourishment.
will starve
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future tenseof starve.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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The glacier will starve, shrink and eventually disappear.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
The book’s opening lines capture his zero-sum Malthusian thinking: “The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026
Astronomers believe that star formation can be slowed or stopped by different factors, all of which will starve a galaxy of the gas it needs to form new stars.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 6, 2024
The joke I make is that if you are on it, and someone leaves the room and doesn’t take you off, you will starve to death.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2024
In my mind was Granny Mallon’s voice: “Without potatoes we will starve to death.”
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
