Fall
Fall verb - To go down from an upright position suddenly and involuntarily.
Starve
Starve verb - Die of food deprivation.
Both words in one sentence
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You will not starve to death, but you will fall unconscious if you go long enough without eating.
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If lucky enough to survive the fall, they'd starve to death from lack of nutritious food.
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And again in "The Reichenbach Fall", where two children are kidnapped and locked in a dark factory where they will starve to death unless they eat the mercury-laced chocolates he left them.
Source: Series / Sherlock
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