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famished adj. 饿死了 饿死了 famished adj 1: extremely hungry; " they were tired and famished for food and sleep"; " a ravenous boy"; " the family was starved and ragged"; " fell into the esurient embrance of a predatory enemy" [ synonym: { famished}, { ravenous}, { sharp- set}, { starved}, { esurient}] 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] 39 Moby Thesaurus words for " famished": bare- handed, beggarly, craving, dog- hungry, empty, empty- handed, famishing, fasting, half- famished, half- starved, hungering, hungry, ill off, ill- equipped, ill- furnished, ill- provided, impoverished, on short commons, pauperized, peckish, pinched with hunger, poor, ravening, ravenous, sharp- set, shorthanded, starved, starveling, starving, underfed, undermanned, undernourished, unfed, unfilled, unprovided, unreplenished, unsupplied, voracious, wolfish
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