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[Jewbacca]

@oldtimer3

I look for a word in one language and find the best word is in another and is often untranslateable!

Help a Non-Native English Speaker Find a Word

I am looking for an English word that may or may not exist. My wife claims said word does not exist. But she originally hails from New Jersey, so her credibility as a native English speaker is limited. Specifically, I am looking for the equivalent word for “starve”, except for water. You can “starve to death”, so that’s dying from lack of food. Heck, you can “choke”, “asphyxiate”, and “suffocate” to death, so English has at least three singular words that capture the idea of dying from lack…