famish

famish is a 6-letter English word with 11 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To starve, kill, or destroy with hunger. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 14 · 11 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To starve, kill, or destroy with hunger.
2. transitive verb. To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to distress with hanger.
3. transitive verb. To kill, or to cause to suffer extremity, by deprivation or denial of anything necessary.
4. transitive verb. To force or constrain by famine.
5. intransitive verb. To die of hunger; to starve.
6. intransitive verb. To suffer extreme hunger or thirst, so as to be exhausted in strength, or to come near to perish.
7. intransitive verb. To suffer extremity from deprivation of anything essential or necessary.
8. adjective. Smoky; hot; choleric.
9. verb. die of food deprivation

   "The political prisoners starved to death"

   "Many famished in the countryside during the drought"

   Synonyms: starve

10. verb. deprive of food

    "They starved the prisoners"

    Synonyms: starve

11. verb. be hungry; go without food

    "Let's eat--I'm starving!"

    Synonyms: hunger, starve

Synonyms

starve, hunger

Common word forms

famished, famishes, famishing, famishment

Words from these letters

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