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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
famished
adj : extremely hungry; "they were tired and famished for food and
sleep"; "a ravenous boy"; "the family was starved and
ragged"; "fell into the esurient embrance of a
predatory enemy" [syn: ravenous, sharp-set, starved,
esurient]
WordNet (r) 2.0
39 Moby Thesaurus words for "famished":
bare-handed, beggarly, craving, dog-hungry, empty, empty-handed,
famishing, fasting, half-famished, half-starved, hungering, hungry,
ill off, ill-equipped, ill-furnished, ill-provided, impoverished,
on short commons, pauperized, peckish, pinched with hunger, poor,
ravening, ravenous, sharp-set, shorthanded, starved, starveling,
starving, underfed, undermanned, undernourished, unfed, unfilled,
unprovided, unreplenished, unsupplied, voracious, wolfish
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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