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Definition famish

Etymology

Middle English famisshe, from famen (�starve�), from Old French afamer. Compare affamish, famine. Cognate with Spanish hambre (�hunger�).

Verb

famish (third-person singular simple present famishes, present participle famishing, simple past and past participle famished)

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

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