Famish word meaning and definition

[verb] die of food deprivation; "The political prisoners starved to death"; "Many famished in the countryside during the drought"
[verb] deprive of food; "They starved the prisoners"
[verb] be hungry; go without food; "Let's eat--I'm starving!"

\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. 2. To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to distress with hanger. And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. --Cen. xli. 55. The pains of famished Tantalus he'll feel. --Dryden. 3. To kill, or to cause to suffer extremity, by deprivation or denial of anything necessary. And famish him of breath, if not of bread. --Milton. 4. To force or constrain by famine. He had famished Paris into a surrender. --Burke.
\Fam"ish\, v. i. 1. To die of hunger; to starve. 2. To suffer extreme hunger or thirst, so as to be exhausted in strength, or to come near to perish. You are all resolved rather to die than to famish? --Shak. 3. To suffer extremity from deprivation of anything essential or necessary. The Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish. --Prov. x. 3.
\Fam"ish\, a. Smoky; hot; choleric.

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