Famish

(v. t.) To starve, kill, or destroy with hunger.

(v. t.) To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to distress with hanger.

(v. t.) To kill, or to cause to suffer extremity, by deprivation or denial of anything necessary.

(v. t.) To force or constrain by famine.

(v. i.) To die of hunger; to starve.

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

(v. i.) To suffer extremity from deprivation of anything essential or necessary.

(a.) Smoky; hot; choleric.

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• I heard them droning out their death-psalms, little judging they were sung in respect for my soul by those who were thus famishing my body. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• On the morning of the 4th I learned that Lee had ordered rations up from Danville for his famishing army, and that they were to meet him at Farmville. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• And now, the sea, late our defence, seems our prison bound; hemmed in by its gulphs, we shall die like the famished inhabitants of a besieged town. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• There was the huge famished brute, its black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and screamed upon the ground. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Is she ill, or only famished? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Does everybody here recall old Foulon, who told the famished people that they might eat grass, and who died, and went to Hell? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Famished, I think. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• To my checked, bridled, disciplined expectation, it seemed very kind: to my longing and famished thought it seemed, perhaps, kinder than it was. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• You sympathize with that proud patrician who does not sympathize with his famished fellow-men, and insults them. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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