inanition

In a sense, just curled up like a ball, or waiting to die from inanition.

The very thought in his estimation perished from inanition and sheer inability of conception!

Dr. Black says, I shall not die of a dropsy, as I imagined, but of inanition and weakness.

He says I shall die of weakness and inanition, and perhaps give little or no warning.

For fuel is the life of modern naval war; it is the food of the ship; without it the modern monsters of the deep die of inanition.

The length of time that he sat there was so remarkable as to raise that interval of inanition to the rank of a feat.