famished

famished
    adj 1: extremely hungry; "they were tired and famished for food
           and sleep"; "a ravenous boy"; "the family was starved and
           ragged"; "fell into the esurient embrance of a predatory
           enemy" [syn: {famished}, {ravenous}, {sharp-set},
           {starved}, {esurient}]
    

Famish \Fam"ish\, v. 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.
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   2. To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to
      distress with hanger.
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            And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the
            people cried to Pharaoh for bread.    --Cen. xli.
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            The pains of famished Tantalus he'll feel. --Dryden.
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   3. To kill, or to cause to suffer extremity, by deprivation
      or denial of anything necessary.
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            And famish him of breath, if not of bread. --Milton.
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   4. To force or constrain by famine.
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            He had famished Paris into a surrender. --Burke.
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39 Moby Thesaurus words for "famished":
      bare-handed, beggarly, craving, dog-hungry, empty, empty-handed,
      famishing, fasting, half-famished, half-starved, hungering, hungry,
      ill off, ill-equipped, ill-furnished, ill-provided, impoverished,
      on short commons, pauperized, peckish, pinched with hunger, poor,
      ravening, ravenous, sharp-set, shorthanded, starved, starveling,
      starving, underfed, undermanned, undernourished, unfed, unfilled,
      unprovided, unreplenished, unsupplied, voracious, wolfish