(v. t.) To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to distress with hanger.
(v. t.) To kill, or to cause to suffer extremity, by deprivation or denial of anything necessary.
(v. t.) To force or constrain by famine.
(v. i.) To die of hunger; to starve.
(v. i.) To suffer extreme hunger or thirst, so as to be exhausted in strength, or to come near to perish.
(v. i.) To suffer extremity from deprivation of anything essential or necessary.
(a.) Smoky; hot; choleric.
Example Sentences:
(1) The peculiar features of SBH are discussed by means of optical, cytochemical, electron microscopical investigations which point out the polymorphous aspect of these "famished" macrophages.
(2) In a new study of hunger's effects on the mind, neuroscientists pieced together what happens in the brain that makes us buy more food when we are famished.
(3) After 30 years I now understand the words that a character in Ben Okri’s The Famished Road says to the white man who complains he hasn’t been able to leave Africa: you can get out of Africa, when you can get Africa out of you.
(4) Even in those most crucial final moments, irreverent presenters Mel and Sue sidled around the marquee, minesweeping offcuts like two St Trinian’s gels totally famished after lacrosse.
(5) And from there we proceeded with the Prijedor police chief and camp commander Zeljko Mejakic through the gates of Omarska, to behold men in various states of shocking decay emerging from a great hangar, being drilled across a yard and into a canteen, where they wolfed down watery bean stew like famished dogs.
(6) Catton takes the youngest winner title from Ben Okri who was 32 when The Famished Road won the Booker prize in 1991.
(7) Last week, a famished woman whose benefits were stopped was prosecuted and fined more than £300 for stealing a 75p pack of Mars Bars.