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verb (used with object), verb (used without object) Archaic.
1.
to suffer or cause to suffer extreme hunger; starve.
2.
to starve to death.
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Famishing
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Word Origin & History
famish
c.1400, famen, aphetic of O.Fr. afamer, from V.L. *affamare "to bring to hunger," from ad famem, from L. fames "hunger." Ending changed mid-14c. to -ish under influence of ravish, anguish, etc. The intrans. sense is from 1520s. Related: Famished.
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