Exsiccated/Exsiccation - was trying to think of a single English term that could be the equivalent of starvation; like if someone was dying of thirst, but I felt parched isn’t weighted enough to fulfill the gravity of it.
In latin exsiccare meant to dry up completely, so that’s how we got here I guess.
Thoughts? Is there a term I have forgotten that fits what I was looking for?
Yeah, I feel some of the terms got whittled down in severity over time. Kind of like you hear people say they executed themselves fairly often. Slowly it’s becoming not deadly, just a bit of a shock lol