餓死

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 餓死, read がし, means death by starvation.
• Basic usage: It describes people in a famine or an animal in a perilous state.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Event and result
  • 餓死する人々 means people starving to death during a famine.
• On the brink
  • 餓死寸前 means on the brink of death by starvation.
  • The second example is a story setting and does not say the animal died.