famish

Other forms: famished; famishing; famishes

Definitions of famish

1. verb

   be hungry; go without food
   synonyms: hunger, starve

   type of:

   hurt, suffer

   feel pain or be in pain
2. verb

   die of food deprivation
   “Many famished in the countryside during the drought”

   synonyms: starve

   type of:

   buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it

   pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
3. verb

   deprive of food
   synonyms: starve

   starve

   deprive of a necessity and cause suffering

   type of:

   deprive

   keep from having, keeping, or obtaining