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Definitions for: Famish
[v] die of food deprivation; "The political prisoners starved to death"; "Many famished in the countryside during the drought"
[v] deprive of food; "They starved the prisoners"
[v] be hungry; go without food; "Let's eat--I'm starving!"
Webster (1913) Definition: 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.
Synonyms: starve
Antonyms: be full, feed, give
See Also: decease, deprive, die, exit, expire, famish, go, hunger, hurt, pass, pass away, perish, suffer
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