25,000 people die every day due to starvation.
2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Theretofore \There'to*fore"\, adverb Up to that time; before then; -- correlative with heretofore.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

theretofore

adverb: up to that time; "they had not done any work theretofore"
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