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famished adj. 饿死了 饿死了 famished adj 1: extremely hungry; "they were tired and famished for food and sleep"; "a ravenous boy"; "the family was starved and ragged"; "fell into the esurient embrance of a predatory enemy" [synonym: {famished}, {ravenous}, {sharp-set}, {starved}, {esurient}] Famish \Fam"ish\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Famished}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Famishing}.] [OE. famen; cf. OF. afamer, L. fames. See {Famine}, and cf. {Affamish}.] 1. To starve, kill, or destroy with hunger. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to distress with hanger. [1913 Webster] And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. --Cen. xli. 55. [1913 Webster] The pains of famished Tantalus he'll feel. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 3. To kill, or to cause to suffer extremity, by deprivation or denial of anything necessary. [1913 Webster] And famish him of breath, if not of bread. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 4. To force or constrain by famine. [1913 Webster] He had famished Paris into a surrender. --Burke. [1913 Webster] 39 Moby Thesaurus words for "famished":
bare-handed, beggarly, craving, dog-hungry, empty, empty-handed, famishing, fasting, half-famished, half-starved, hungering, hungry, ill off, ill-equipped, ill-furnished, ill-provided, impoverished, on short commons, pauperized, peckish, pinched with hunger, poor, ravening, ravenous, sharp-set, shorthanded, starved, starveling, starving, underfed, undermanned, undernourished, unfed, unfilled, unprovided, unreplenished, unsupplied, voracious, wolfish
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