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- pronunciation:
- fae
mihsh
- parts of speech:
- transitive verb, intransitive verb
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transitive verb |
| inflections: |
famishes, famishing, famished |
| definition: |
to cause to suffer from severe hunger.
The failure of the crops and the long winter that followed famished the settlers. |
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| part of speech: |
intransitive verb |
| inflections: |
famishes, famishing, famished |
| definition: |
to experience great hunger or death by starvation.
Many of the peasants famished that year.- synonyms:
- starve
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