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Synonyms for famish

Grammar : Verb
Spell : fam-ish
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfæm ɪʃ

Définition of famish

Origin :
  • c.1400, famyschen, alteration of famen (late 14c.), a shortening of Old French afamer, from Vulgar Latin *affamare "to bring to hunger," from ad famem, from Latin fames "hunger" (see famine).
  • Ending changed mid-14c. to -ish under influence of ravish, anguish, etc. The intransitive sense is from 1520s. Related: Famished; famishing.
  • As in fast : verb go without food
Example sentences :
  • I sat on a hay-stack, and spoke nothing for some hours; for I was to famish them from words.
  • Extract from : « George Fox » by George Fox
  • Never varlets So triumph'd o'er an old fat man: I was famish'd.
  • Extract from : « The Plays of Philip Massinger » by Philip Massinger
  • Already languishing from sheer fatigue, must she now famish also?
  • Extract from : « A Gentleman Player » by Robert Neilson Stephens
  • I famish to begin again—and I will make time for that, and the girls too!
  • Extract from : « The Young Step-Mother » by Charlotte M. Yonge
  • Relief must soon come from some quarter, else many in this community will famish.
  • Extract from : « A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital » by John Beauchamp Jones
  • But the tendency to famish us displayed by our Rulers was not calculated to improve the morale of a civilian, or any, army.
  • Extract from : « The Siege of Kimberley » by T. Phelan
  • The gorging a royal kitchen may stint and famish the negotiations of a kingdom.
  • Extract from : « The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. II. (of 12) » by Edmund Burke
  • But, in the interim, she must starve and famish like a white mouse learning to dance.'
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXLV. July, 1844. Vol. LVI. » by Various
  • In many places it strives to famish them, or takes delight in annoying them.
  • Extract from : « The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 2 (of 6) » by Hippolyte A. Taine
  • "I lack some bread to give to those that famish, and I'll pay for that which I receive," was her reply.
  • Extract from : « The Three Perils of Man, Vol. 3 (of 3) » by James Hogg

Antonyms for famish

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