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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Famishing (0.01008 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to Famishing.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: famish
famish
v 1: be hungry; go without food;
“Let's eat--I'm starving!” [syn:
starve,
hunger] [ant:
be full]
2: deprive of food;
“They starved the prisoners” [syn:
starve]
[ant:
feed]
3: die of food deprivation;
“The political prisoners starved to
death”;
“Many famished in the countryside during the
drought” [syn:
starve]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Famishing
Famish
\Fam"ish\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Famished; p. pr. & vb.
n.
Famishing.] [OE. famen; cf. OF. afamer, L. fames. See
Famine, and cf.
Affamish.]
1. To starve, kill, or destroy with hunger. --Shak.
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2. To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to
distress with hanger.
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And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the
people cried to Pharaoh for bread. --Cen. xli.
55.
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The pains of famished Tantalus he'll feel. --Dryden.
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3. To kill, or to cause to suffer extremity, by deprivation
or denial of anything necessary.
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And famish him of breath, if not of bread. --Milton.
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4. To force or constrain by famine.
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He had famished Paris into a surrender. --Burke.
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