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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Whether famishment gleamed in my eye, I knew not.
From Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
Go on, Sir William Blunt: Pass briefly to the lady's famishment.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by William Carew Hazlitt
We’ve got a fair chance o’ goin’ un’er yet, eyther from thirst or the famishment o’ empty stomaks.
From The Lone Ranche by Mayne Reid
And she must love so, else she would die of famishment.
From The Indian Lily and Other Stories by Ludwig Lewisohn
And there shall be earthquakes, in all quarters, and famishment, and troubles.
From The first New Testament printed in English by
