Sense file
How the sense moved
The archive follows the dated record first, then reads the social or rhetorical pressure that hardened, softened, narrowed, or reversed the word.
Older meaning
Die.
Modern meaning
Suffer or die from lack of food.
Research lens
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Meaning trail
Root
die
The term did not originally specify cause.
Shift
die of cold or hardship
Specific contexts pulled the sense tighter.
Now
die from hunger
Food deprivation became the default reading.