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famish

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6 lettersPronunciation /ˈfamɪʃ/Part of speech verbSorted afhimsStarts with FEnds with H0 clues
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Definitions

  1. die of food deprivation

Word origin

From Middle English famisshe, from famen (“starve”), from Old French afamer, ultimately from Latin famēs (“hunger”). Compare affamish, famine. Cognate with Spanish hambre (“hunger”).

Used in a sentence

  • Even so did Corellius Rufus, another grave senator, by the relation of Plinius Secundus, Epist. lib.1, epist.12, famish himself to death […]
  • And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread.
  • The pains of famished Tantalus [he] shall feel.

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