餓が死し

also: がしん

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餓死する · noun or participle which takes 'suru'

Meanings

starvation; starving to death

Refers to death caused by lack of food. Can be used as a noun or as a suru-verb (餓死する).

〈人ひと〉が餓が死しするfor someone to starve to death
戦せん争そう中ちゅう、多おおくの人ひと々びとが餓死がししした。
During the war, many people starved to death.
餓が死しを免まぬがれるto escape/avoid starving to death
彼かれらは援えん助じょのおかげで餓が死しを免まぬがれた。
Thanks to the aid, they avoided starving to death.
餓が死しの危き険けんがあるto be at risk of starving to death
食しょく料りょうが尽つきれば餓が死しの危き険けんがある。
If the food runs out, there is a risk of starving to death.

飢うえ死じに
餓死 is the formal, clinical term for death by starvation, while 飢え死に is a more colloquial and emotionally charged way to say the same thing.

栄えい養よう失しっ調ちょうN1
栄養失調 means malnutrition, a condition that may or may not be fatal, whereas 餓死 specifically means dying from lack of food.
凍とう死し
凍死 and 餓死 share the same '死' structure meaning 'death by X', but 凍死 is death by freezing while 餓死 is death by starvation.
飢き餓がN1
飢餓 is the ongoing state of starvation, while 餓死 specifically means dying from that starvation, so the two are easily confused but not interchangeable.

A Sino-Japanese compound of 餓 “starve” and 死 “die,” literally “to die of starvation.”