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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
famish
v 1: be hungry; go without food; "Let's eat--I'm starving!"
[syn: starve, hunger, famish] [ant: be full]
2: deprive of food; "They starved the prisoners" [syn: starve,
famish] [ant: feed, give]
3: die of food deprivation; "The political prisoners starved to
death"; "Many famished in the countryside during the drought"
[syn: starve, famish]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Famish \Fam"ish\, v. i.
1. To die of hunger; to starve.
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2. To suffer extreme hunger or thirst, so as to be exhausted
in strength, or to come near to perish.
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You are all resolved rather to die than to famish?
--Shak.
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3. To suffer extremity from deprivation of anything essential
or necessary.
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The Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous
to famish. --Prov. x. 3.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Famish \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.
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2. To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to
distress with hanger.
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And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the
people cried to Pharaoh for bread. --Cen. xli.
55.
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The pains of famished Tantalus he'll feel. --Dryden.
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3. To kill, or to cause to suffer extremity, by deprivation
or denial of anything necessary.
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And famish him of breath, if not of bread. --Milton.
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4. To force or constrain by famine.
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He had famished Paris into a surrender. --Burke.
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Common Misspellings > |
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