| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Present participle | 1. Seldom used present participle conjugation of the verb famish.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (famish) | 1. Be hungry; go without food.[Wordnet]. 2. Deprive of food.[Wordnet]. 3. Die of food deprivation; "Many famished in the countryside during the drought".[Wordnet]. 4. To starve, kill, or destroy with hunger.[Websters]. 5. To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to distress with hanger.[Websters]. 6. To kill, or to cause to suffer extremity, by deprivation or denial of anything necessary.[Websters]. 7. To force or constrain by famine.[Websters]. 8. To die of hunger; to starve.[Websters]. 9. To suffer extreme hunger or thirst, so as to be exhausted in strength, or to come near to perish.[Websters]. 10. To suffer extremity from deprivation of anything essential or necessary.[Websters]. 11. Seldom used base verb from the following inflections: famishing, famished, famishes, famisher, famishers, famishingly and famishedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "FAMISHING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1590. (references) |
Specialty Definition: FAMISHING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Starving; killing; perishing by want of food. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
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