Famished

Word FAMISHED
Character 8
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /ˈfæmɪʃt/

Definitions and meanings of "Famished"

What do we mean by famished?

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

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

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

To force or constrain by famine.

To die of hunger; to starve.

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

To suffer extremity from deprivation of anything essential or necessary.

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The word "famished" in example sentences

He went to the bog in the morning on his breakfast of dry stirabout, with a bit of cold stirabout in his pocket to keep off the hungry grass, as the peasant calls famished pains, and walked home to his dry stirabout at night, having walked going and coming eleven Irish miles over and above his day's work. ❋ Margaret Moran Dixon McDougall (1862)

Their experience finds a compelling representative in Leymah Gbowee, who recalled her famished ❋ Unknown (2009)

The sky was a kind of famished blue, insufficiently dressed with a few stretches of muslin clouds. ❋ Adam Roberts Project (2007)

It was evident that when the goblin girl said "famished" she meant very hungry indeed. ❋ Anthony, Piers (1983)

There are any number of French restaurateurs who will give "famished" Americans exactly what they're used to -- after all, a euro is a euro is a euro. ❋ Unknown (2010)

There are any number of French restaurateurs who will give "famished" Americans exactly what they're used to - after all, a euro is a euro is a euro. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Mr. Stross explained that Google's goal is to feed information to the company's servers like they are some kind of famished beasts: "It has reached out to claim as many books as it can get hold of, as many videos as its users would like to submit, as many different kinds of maps as can be overlaid upon the earth and the sky, and as many of the documents that computer users routinely create for home, office, and school." ❋ Unknown (2008)

I'm not joking, but I could not work out how†"until eventually I stumbled upon my inventory (I'm not even sure how) and finally made him reach the state of" famished "rather than starving. ❋ Unknown (2008)

There are people who only see hopelessness in Africa: unrest here in Uganda, famished refugees in Kenya, continued fighting in Somalia and withering crops across East Africa. ❋ Susan Davis (2011)

Girls complained to me about being famished by dinner time, overeating, and not understanding why. ❋ Stephanie Armstrong (2011)

I was famished and didn't want to be stranded with no car and no food. ❋ Palmer Chinchen (2011)

He was just finishing a chili dog, entirely at ease, and I remembered I was famished. ❋ Kristine Douglas (2011)

It was a bright sunny Thursday afternoon around 2pm and we were famished. ❋ Karine Bakhoum (2010)

The dutiful staff were last seen serving steamed broccoli in large two-handled stainless steel pots, marching happily in aprons unadorned with the Jimeno Botts broccoli company logo, amidst the famished crowd with ready ladles and serving forks and stainless steel tongs, dispensing broccoli by the ounce and pound production had been running at over 94% efficiency for each of the last seven quarters. ❋ Strannikov (2012)

Let me fold you into my arms, feed ten toes to your famished mouth, wear your gaze like a cashmere coat. ❋ Gary Percesepe (2011)

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