Definitions for famish

famish fam·ish

Spelling: [fam-ish]
IPA: /ˈfæm ɪʃ/

Famish is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 96 anagrams from letters in famish (afhims).

Definitions for famish

verb (used with or without object)

  1. to suffer or cause to suffer extreme hunger; starve.
  2. to starve to death.

Origin of famish

1350-1400; Middle English famisshe, equivalent to famen to starve (Anglo-French, Middle French afamer Vulgar Latin *affamāre, equivalent to Latin af- af- + famāre, deri

Examples for famish

Relief must soon come from some quarter, else many in this community will famish.

Already languishing from sheer fatigue, must she now famish also?

Never varlets So triumph'd o'er an old fat man: I was famish'd.

I sat on a hay-stack, and spoke nothing for some hours; for I was to famish them from words.

In many places it strives to famish them, or takes delight in annoying them.

"I lack some bread to give to those that famish, and I'll pay for that which I receive," was her reply.

I famish to begin again—and I will make time for that, and the girls too!

The gorging a royal kitchen may stint and famish the negotiations of a kingdom.

But, in the interim, she must starve and famish like a white mouse learning to dance.'

But the tendency to famish us displayed by our Rulers was not calculated to improve the morale of a civilian, or any, army.

Word Value for famish
Scrable

14

Words with friends

14

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