Famish

Definition of Famish

Fam´ish

v. t.	1.	To starve, kill, or destroy with hunger. [imp. & p. p. Famished ; p. pr. & vb. n. Famishing.]
	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.
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. You are all resolved rather to die than to famish? - Shak.
	3.	To suffer extremity from deprivation of anything essential or necessary. The Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish. - Prov. x. 3.

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