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 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
I’ve had an entire career where if I sit around and wait for someone to come knocking on my door, I will starve.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2025
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
"If the government doesn't reduce the fuel price soon, we will starve to death."
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2022
They’ll feel how I do when I think about how the oceans are changing in all the worst ways, and how jellyfish will starve even whales.
From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin
