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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.

2. To exhaust the strength or endurance of,
by hunger; to distress with hanger.

And when all the land of Egypt was famished,
the people cried to Pharaoh for bread.

Cen. xli.
55.

The pains of famished Tantalus he'll
feel.

Dryden.

3. To kill, or to cause to suffer extremity,
by deprivation or denial of anything necessary.

And famish him of breath, if not of
bread.

Milton.

4. To force or constrain by famine.

He had famished Paris into a
surrender.

Burke.

Fam"ish, v. i. 1.
To die of hunger; to starve.

2. To suffer extreme hunger or thirst, so as
to be exhausted in strength, or to come near to perish.

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