FAMISH

Definitions for the word, famish

(a.) Smoky; hot; choleric.

(v. i.) To die of hunger; to starve.

(v. i.) To suffer extreme hunger or thirst, so as to be exhausted in strength, or to come near to perish.

(v. i.) To suffer extremity from deprivation of anything essential or necessary.

(v. t.) To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to distress with hanger.

(v. t.) To force or constrain by famine.

(v. t.) To kill, or to cause to suffer extremity, by deprivation or denial of anything necessary.

(v. t.) To starve, kill, or destroy with hunger.