Famish

['fæmɪʃ]

Definition

(v. t.) To starve, kill, or destroy with hunger.

(v. t.) To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to distress with hanger.

(v. t.) To kill, or to cause to suffer extremity, by deprivation or denial of anything necessary.

(v. t.) To force or constrain by famine.

(v. i.) To die of hunger; to starve.

(v. i.) To suffer extreme hunger or thirst, so as to be exhausted in strength, or to come near to perish.

(v. i.) To suffer extremity from deprivation of anything essential or necessary.

(a.) Smoky; hot; choleric.

Checker: Yale

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. [1]. Starve, kill with hunger.[2]. Distress with hunger, exhaust by hunger.

v. n. [1]. Starve, die of hunger, perish for want of food.[2]. Be distressed by hunger.

Checker: Nellie

Definition

v.t. to starve.—v.i. to die or suffer extreme hunger or thirst.—n. Fam′ishment starvation.

Checked by Jerome