Dictionary Entry
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
- 1transitive verb
To starve, kill, or destroy with hunger.
- 2transitive verb
To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to distress with hanger.
- 3transitive verb
To kill, or to cause to suffer extremity, by deprivation or denial of anything necessary.
- 4transitive verb
To force or constrain by famine.
- 5intransitive verb
To die of hunger; to starve.
- 6intransitive verb
To suffer extreme hunger or thirst, so as to be exhausted in strength, or to come near to perish.
- 7intransitive verb
To suffer extremity from deprivation of anything essential or necessary.
- 8adjective
Smoky; hot; choleric.
- 9verb
die of food deprivation
"The political prisoners starved to death"
"Many famished in the countryside during the drought"
Synonyms
- 10verb
deprive of food
"They starved the prisoners"
Synonyms
- 11verb
be hungry; go without food
"Let's eat--I'm starving!"
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