Famish

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  • intransitive verb. To cause to endure severe hunger.
  • intransitive verb. To cause to starve to death.
  • intransitive verb. To endure severe deprivation, especially of food.
  • intransitive verb. To undergo starvation and die.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To deprive of nourishment; keep or cause to be insufficiently supplied with food or drink; starve; destroy, exhaust, or distress with hunger or thirst.
  • To suffer extreme hunger or thirst; be exhausted through want of food or drink; suffer extremity by deprivation of any necessary.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To starve, kill, or destroy with hunger.
  • transitive verb. To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to distress with hanger.
  • transitive verb. To kill, or to cause to suffer extremity, by deprivation or denial of anything necessary.
  • transitive verb. To force or constrain by famine.
  • intransitive verb. To die of hunger; to starve.
  • intransitive verb. To suffer extreme hunger or thirst, so as to be exhausted in strength, or to come near to perish.
  • intransitive verb. To suffer extremity from deprivation of anything essential or necessary.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To starve (to death); to kill or destroy with hunger.
  • verb. To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to distress with hunger.
  • verb. To kill, or to cause to suffer extremity, by deprivation or denial of anything necessary.
  • verb. To force or constrain by famine.
  • verb. To die of hunger; to starve.
  • verb. To suffer extreme hunger or thirst, so as to be exhausted in strength, or to come near to perish.
  • verb. To suffer extremity from deprivation of anything essential or necessary.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. die of food deprivation
  • verb. deprive of food
  • verb. be hungry; go without food
  • Word Usage
    "In the first scene, the First Citizen describes the Senate the 1% of ancient Rome: They ne'er cared for us yet: suffer us to famish, and their storehouses crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act established against the rich, and provide more piercing statutes daily to chain up and restrain the poor."
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    feast  feed  nourish  
    Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    clam  pinch  starve  
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