Famish

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·adj Smoky; hot; choleric.

II. Famish ·vt To force or constrain by famine.

III. Famish ·vt To starve, kill, or destroy with hunger.

IV. Famish ·vi To die of hunger; to Starve.

V. Famish ·vi To suffer extremity from deprivation of anything essential or necessary.

VI. Famish ·vt To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to distress with hanger.

VII. Famish ·vt To kill, or to cause to suffer extremity, by deprivation or denial of anything necessary.

VIII. Famish ·vi To suffer extreme hunger or thirst, so as to be exhausted in strength, or to come near to perish.