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Famish

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Verb (usu participle)

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fam=ish

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb Famish has 3 senses

famish(v = verb.consumption) hunger, starve - be hungry; go without food; "Let's eat--I'm starving!"

is one way to hurt, suffer

Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

famish(v = verb.consumption) starve - deprive of food; "They starved the prisoners"

is one way to deprive

Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody

famish(v = verb.consumption) starve - die of food deprivation; "The political prisoners starved to death"; "Many famished in the countryside during the drought"

is one way to buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it

Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s

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CIDE DICTIONARY

Famish, v. t. [OE. famen; cf. OF. afamer, L. fames. See Famine, and cf. Affamish.].

To starve, kill, or destroy with hunger. Shak. [1913 Webster]
To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to distress with hanger. [1913 Webster]
"And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread." [1913 Webster]

"The pains of famished Tantalus he'll feel." [1913 Webster]
To kill, or to cause to suffer extremity, by deprivation or denial of anything necessary. [1913 Webster]
"And famish him of breath, if not of bread." [1913 Webster]
To force or constrain by famine. [1913 Webster]
"He had famished Paris into a surrender." [1913 Webster]

Famish, v. i.

To die of hunger; to starve. [1913 Webster]
To suffer extreme hunger or thirst, so as to be exhausted in strength, or to come near to perish. [1913 Webster]
"You are all resolved rather to die than to famish?" [1913 Webster]
To suffer extremity from deprivation of anything essential or necessary. [1913 Webster]
"The Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish." [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

Famish, v.tr. & intr. (usu. in passive)
1 reduce or be reduced to extreme hunger.
2 colloq. feel very hungry.

Etymology

ME f. obs. fame f. OF afamer ult. f. L fames hunger

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ROGET THESAURUS

Famish

Parsimony

VB be parsimonious, grudge, begrudge, stint, pinch, gripe, screw, dole out, hold back, withhold, starve, famish, live upon nothing, skin a flint, drive a bargain, drive a hard bargain, cheapen, beat down, stop one hole in a sieve, have an itching palm, grasp, grab.

Fasting

VB fast, starve, clem, famish, perish with hunger, dine with Duke Humphrey, make two bites of a cherry.

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