Word Finder - famished

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To starve (to death); to kill or destroy with hunger.

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

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

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To force or constrain by famine.

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To die of hunger; to starve.

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

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To suffer extremity from deprivation of anything essential or necessary.

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Extremely hungry.

Jackson awoke, famished; he once again had not fed all day.

Suddenly he felt famished.

Domino's Pizza chain is an excellent choice for many famished pizza patrons.

My neighbor asked me if I had been out building something, to get so famished.

Weak and famished, he hardly wanted to eat the fatted calf when the vision was over.

It can be disappointing to show up at a restaurant, famished for dinner, and find out that the maître d' refuses to seat you because you're not wearing a tie.

But when the rainy season has set in upon the advancing enemy, they have watched their opportunity to make excursions and vent their rage; the famished invaders have either become their prisoners or been put to death.

About mid-day we were absolutely famished again, and an S.O.S. was sent to H.Q. for sandwiches and hot drinks.

Hence, overeating is less likely to occur as so often happens when famished at mealtime.

Famished persons are liable to morbid excite ment, and fall into imaginative ecstasies, in the course of which they see visions and spectres, converse with gods and angels, and are the recipients of supernatural revelations.

Having then reached my normal state, I discovered that I was half famished with hunger.

The chiefs who had planned to hurl the famished warrior host upon the colony had committed an incredible blunder in neglecting to call the nation together under pretext of witnessing the resurrection.

It was a weary and famished, but still a fighting and menacing army.

Next day the siege begins, and after forty days the famished inhabitants urge the governor Ozias to surrender, which he consents to do unless relieved in five days.