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famish

verb

1 famish

Be hungry; go without food.

synonyms: hunger, starve.

Roget 819: be parsimonious etc. adj.; grudge, begrudge, stint, pinch, gripe, screw, dole out, hold back, withhold, starve, famish, ... show more

Roget 956: fast, starve, clem, famish, perish with hunger; dine with Duke Humphrey; make two bites of a cherry.   

Dutch: rammelen, doodhongeren, verhongeren

2 famish

Deprive of food.

synonym: starve.

Dutch: uithongeren

3 famish

Die of food deprivation:
— Many famished in the countryside during the drought.

synonym: starve.

Dutch: doodhongeren, verhongeren


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