famish

Verb
  1. Be hungry;
    Go without food (synset 201190677)
    "Let's eat--I'm starving!"
    is a type of: hurt, suffer - feel pain or be in pain
    same as: hunger, starve
  2. Deprive of food (synset 201190273)
    "They starved the prisoners"
    causes: famish, hunger, starve - be hungry; go without food
    is a type of: deprive - keep from having, keeping, or obtaining
    same as: starve
    verb group: starve - deprive of a necessity and cause suffering
  3. Die of food deprivation (synset 201190070)
    "The political prisoners starved to death"; "Many famished in the countryside during the drought"
    is a type of: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it - pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
    same as: starve

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