About The Word Famish
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Famish
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What's The Definition Of Famish?
[v] die of food deprivation; "The political prisoners starved to death"; "Many famished in the countryside during the drought"
[v] deprive of food; "They starved the prisoners" [v] be hungry; go without food; "Let's eat--I'm starving!" Synonyms | Synonyms for Famish: starve Related Terms | Find terms related to Famish: See Also | decease | deprive | die | exit | expire | famish | go | hunger | hurt | pass | pass away | perish | suffer Famish In Webster's Dictionary \Fam"ish\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Famished}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Famishing}.] [OE. famen; cf. OF. afamer, L. fames. See
{Famine}, and cf. {Affamish}.]
1. To starve, kill, or destroy with hunger. --Shak.
2. To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to
distress with hanger.
And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the
people cried to Pharaoh for bread. --Cen. xli.
55.
The pains of famished Tantalus he'll feel. --Dryden.
3. To kill, or to cause to suffer extremity, by deprivation
or denial of anything necessary.
And famish him of breath, if not of bread. --Milton.
4. To force or constrain by famine.
He had famished Paris into a surrender. --Burke.
\Fam"ish\, v. i. 1. To die of hunger; to starve. 2. To suffer extreme hunger or thirst, so as to be exhausted in strength, or to come near to perish. You are all resolved rather to die than to famish? --Shak. 3. To suffer extremity from deprivation of anything essential or necessary. The Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish. --Prov. x. 3. \Fam"ish\, a. Smoky; hot; choleric. |
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