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Word: famish (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Verb:

  • intransitive To die of hunger; to starve.
  • intransitive To suffer extreme hunger or thirst, so as to be exhausted in strength, or to come near to perish.
  • intransitive To suffer extremity from deprivation of anything essential or necessary.
  • transitive To starve (to death); to kill or destroy with hunger.
  • transitive To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to distress with hunger.
  • transitive To force or constrain by famine.
  • transitive To kill, or to cause to suffer extremity, by deprivation or denial of anything necessary.

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