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famish vt. 使挨餓
vi. 饑餓,挨餓 使挨餓飢餓,挨餓 famish v 1: be hungry; go without food; " Let' s eat-- I' m starving!" [ synonym: { starve}, { hunger}, { famish}] [ ant: { be full}] 2: deprive of food; " They starved the prisoners" [ synonym: { starve}, { famish}] [ ant: { feed}, { give}] 3: die of food deprivation; " The political prisoners starved to death"; " Many famished in the countryside during the drought" [ synonym: { starve}, { famish}] Famish \ Fam" ish\, v. i. 1. To die of hunger; to starve. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To suffer extreme hunger or thirst, so as to be exhausted in strength, or to come near to perish. [ 1913 Webster] You are all resolved rather to die than to famish? -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To suffer extremity from deprivation of anything essential or necessary. [ 1913 Webster] The Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish. -- Prov. x. 3. [ 1913 Webster]
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. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to distress with hanger. [ 1913 Webster] And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. -- Cen. xli. 55. [ 1913 Webster] The pains of famished Tantalus he' ll feel. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To kill, or to cause to suffer extremity, by deprivation or denial of anything necessary. [ 1913 Webster] And famish him of breath, if not of bread. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 4. To force or constrain by famine. [ 1913 Webster] He had famished Paris into a surrender. -- Burke. [ 1913 Webster]
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