Definitions from Wiktionary (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 cause to be very hungry.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To kill, or to cause great suffering to, by depriving or denying anything necessary.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To force, control, or constrain by famine.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To die of hunger; to starve to death.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To suffer extreme hunger or thirst, so as to be exhausted in strength, or to nearly perish.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To suffer extremity from deprivation of anything essential or necessary.


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