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