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Meaning of 'famish' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Famish [ a.]
- Smoky; hot; choleric.
2 . Famish [ v. i.]
- To die of hunger; to starve.
- To suffer extreme hunger or thirst, so as to be exhausted in strength, or to come near to perish.
- To suffer extremity from deprivation of anything essential or necessary.
3 . Famish [ v. t.]
- To starve, kill, or destroy with hunger.
- To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to distress with hanger.
- To kill, or to cause to suffer extremity, by deprivation or denial of anything necessary.
- To force or constrain by famine.

Meaning of 'famish' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . famish [ v]
Meaning (1):
- be hungry; go without food
Example in sentence:
  • Let's eat--I'm starving!
Meaning (2):
- die of food deprivation
Example in sentence:
  • Many famished in the countryside during the drought;
  • The political prisoners starved to death
Meaning (3):
- deprive of food
Example in sentence:
  • They starved the prisoners

Nearby Words:

famble fame famed fameless familiar familiarities familiarity familiarization familiarize familiarized

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