to famish
1
8.5
- verb
- /ˈfæmɪʃ/
- Archaic
:
privar de alimentos
- I was famished, but you shouldn't have stolen it.
Examples
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He felt his need for information almost as a need for nourishment; he was famished for it.
Fiction book (1993) -
Suddenly famished, he ordered both.
Academic text (2007) -
Did you marry me to famish me?
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You are all resolved rather to die than to famish?
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Sorry am I his numbers are so few, his soldiers sick and famished in their march.
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The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God, and the church is famishing for want of His presence.
Blog text (16) -
His soulful brown eyes reminded Frank of the Irish setter he'd owned as a boy, a perpetually famished collection of big feet and long hair.
Fiction book (2001) -
He describes their ululations as "orange with lavender streaks"; the groundshaking crash as another famished buffalo hits the forest floor as "battleship grey."
Fiction book (1999) -
That was why a constant beating of drums could be heard, obscurantist prayers on all the beaches, entreating ancestors to cause more ships to run aground, scatter their cargoes, and fall into their famished hands.
Fiction book (1995) -
After hiking for hours, we were famished and quickly ate our sandwiches.
Synonyms
134
3.0
To stop someone from eating so they become very hungry
16
6.8
Give a person or animal too little food so they become unhealthy
Antonyms
How Hungry
Surface Forms
Etymology
Famish comes from the Latin fames, meaning 'hunger', and shares the root with famine. A helpful image is a small 'famine' for one person or animal, so to famish someone is to deprive them of food and make them very hungry.