famish

famishverb/ˈfamɪʃ/

• 1

  obsoleteTo starve (to death); to kill or destroy with hunger.

  • Even so did Corellius Rufus, another grave senator, by the relation of Plinius Secundus, Epist. lib.1, epist.12, famish himself to death […]
• 2

  To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to cause to be very hungry.

  • And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread.
  • The pains of famished Tantalus [he] shall feel.
• 3

  To kill, or to cause great suffering to, by depriving or denying anything necessary.

  • And famish him of breath, if not of bread?
• 4

  To force, control, or constrain by famine.

  • He had […]famished Paris into a surrender.
• 5

  To die of hunger; to starve to death.

  • Some ſay that Rauens foſter forlorne children, / The vvhilſt their ovvne birds famiſh in their neſts: / Oh be to me though thy hard hart ſay no, / Nothing ſo kinde but ſomething pittifull.
• 6

  To suffer extreme hunger or thirst, so as to be exhausted in strength, or to nearly perish.

  • You are all resolved rather to die than to famish?
• 7

  To suffer extremity from deprivation of anything essential or necessary.

  • The Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish.