morir de hambre

Spanish

Verb

morir de hambre (first-person singular present muero de hambre, first-person singular preterite morí de hambre, past participle muerto de hambre)

to die of hunger, to starve to death
(idiomatic, intransitive) to starve, to be starving, to be famished
(idiomatic, takes a reflexive pronoun) to starve, to be starving, to be famished

Coordinate terms

morir de sed (“to die of thirst”)

Further reading

“morir, o morirse, de hambre”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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