Definitions for famished

famished fam·ished

Spelling: [fam-isht]
IPA: /ˈfæm ɪʃt/

Famished is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 317 anagrams from letters in famished (adefhims).

Definitions for famished

adjective

  1. extremely hungry:

verb (used with or without object)

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

Origin of famished

late Middle English word dating back to 1375-1425; See origin at famish, -ed2

Examples for famished

famished Financier Dear famished: You, sir, have come to the right place.

North Korea is this impoverished, famished regime, but they have our attention because they have nuclear weapons.

That's well—and that ould Matthew is as obstinate a neger as ever famished his stomach.

These she produced likewise; and he ate and drank with the voracity of a famished hound.

This, you may imagine, the famished Prince was only too glad to do.

However, that was a slight affair, and Vance was far too famished to be particular.

Oh, mother, the famine was sore, and he was kind to the famished people!

It seemed to Madame Francois that he was in far too famished a condition to have got drunk.

It was simply a bare, gaunt, famished skeleton, slaying his way along.

Dash Snow was an artist whose subject matter involved rats, famished dogs, squalid sex, police brutality, and street life.

Word Value for famished
Scrable

17

Words with friends

17

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