to death

bleed to death

freeze to death

There was doubt and bewilderment about what had actually happened in Dallas on November 22, 1963, and the uncertainty was compounded two days later when Lee Harvey Oswald was shot to death while in the custody of the Dallas police.

1971, Lyndon Johnson, “"I feel like I have already been here a year"”, in The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 18–19

1. Let us go to the wood, says this pig; 2. What to do there? says that pig; 3. To look for my mother, says this pig; 4. What to do with, her? says that pig; 5. Kiss her to death, says this pig.

1805, Songs for the Nursery, page 5

“Do you know its two, and the man is to call for us at three with the boat, and the supper is cooked to death.”

1843, Theodore S. Fay, chapter X, in Hoboken: A Romance of New York, volume 2, New York: Harper & Brothers, page 59

He had run two miles, through the woods, to see the new baby. There were more wild-cats than babies in the woods of Kentucky. Besides, this baby was his cousin. He said that he was "tickled to death" to have a boy cousin.

1915, Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson, The How and Why Library

Are we to be crucified just to save the faces of our leaders or to bolster up the preposterous that India can be a single nation? Is it with a view to achieve a compromise at all costs, or is it to support the illusion that Hindu nationalism is working in the interests of Muslims as well as Hindus? Irony is flattered to death by a mental muddle of such a nature and on such a scale.

1933, Choudhary Rahmat Ali et al., Now or Never; Are We to Live or Perish Forever?

Now, though, it was six-thirty—high time for them both to be back, whatever the trouble— and a roast cooking to death in the oven.

1948, Albert E. Idell, The Great Blizzard, New York: Henry Holt and Company, page 174