'Famished' definitions:
Definition of 'famished'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Famished'
From: GCIDE
- Famish \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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to distress with hanger. [1913 Webster]
- And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. --Cen. xli. 55. [1913 Webster]
- The pains of famished Tantalus he'll feel. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To kill, or to cause to suffer extremity, by deprivation or denial of anything necessary. [1913 Webster]
- And famish him of breath, if not of bread. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To force or constrain by famine. [1913 Webster]
- He had famished Paris into a surrender. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'famished'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- bare-handed,
- beggarly,
- craving,
- dog-hungry,
- empty,
- empty-handed,
- famishing,
- fasting,
- half-famished,
- half-starved,
- hungering,
- hungry,
- ill off,
- ill-equipped,
- ill-furnished,
- ill-provided,
- impoverished,
- on short commons,
- pauperized,
- peckish,
- pinched with hunger,
- poor,
- ravening,
- ravenous,
- sharp-set,
- shorthanded,
- starved,
- starveling,
- starving,
- underfed,
- undermanned,
- undernourished,
- unfed,
- unfilled,
- unprovided,
- unreplenished,
- unsupplied,
- voracious,
- wolfish