famish

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verb

V_es/s

famishes

V_ing/Gerund

famishing

V_ed/pp

famished

1.
(obsolete, transitive)To starve (to death); to kill or destroy with hunger.
2.
(transitive)To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to cause to be very hungry.
3.
(transitive)To kill, or to cause great suffering to, by depriving or denying anything necessary.
4.
(transitive)To force, control, or constrain by famine.
5.
(intransitive)To die of hunger; to starve to death.
6.
(intransitive)To suffer extreme hunger or thirst, so as to be exhausted in strength, or to nearly perish.
7.
(intransitive)To suffer extremity from deprivation of anything essential or necessary.

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From Middle English famisshe, from famen (starve), from Old French afamer, ultimately from Latin famēs (hunger). Compare affamish, famine. Cognate with hambre hunger.