famished
Meaning of famished
verb
- To starve (to death); to kill or destroy with hunger.
- To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to distress with hunger.
- To kill, or to cause to suffer extremity, by deprivation or denial of anything necessary.
- To force or constrain by famine.
- To die of hunger; to starve.
- To suffer extreme hunger or thirst, so as to be exhausted in strength, or to come near to perish.
- To suffer extremity from deprivation of anything essential or necessary.
adjective
Extremely hungry.
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Hyphenation of famished
fam-ished
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- famished is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
famished synonyms
Meaning ravenous:
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