famish
verb (used with or without object)
to suffer or cause to suffer extreme hunger; starve.
famishment
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a word derived from
famish.
Example Sentences
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Go on, Sir William Blunt: Pass briefly to the lady's famishment.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by Hazlitt, William Carew
And there shall be earthquakes, in all quarters, and famishment, and troubles.
From The first New Testament printed in English by
A miserable death is famishment; But what care I?
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by Hazlitt, William Carew
And she must love so, else she would die of famishment.
From The Indian Lily and Other Stories by Lewisohn, Ludwig
Whether famishment gleamed in my eye, I knew not.
From Autobiography of a Yogi by Yogananda, Paramahansa
