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词汇 famish
释义 famish
verb[ I or T ]
 old-fashioneduk /ˈfæm.ɪʃ/ us /ˈfæm.ɪʃ/
to suffer from extreme hunger or to make someone suffer from extreme hunger: 极度饥饿;使挨饿
Russia famished under the Five Year Plan.俄罗斯在五年计划时期的极度饥饿。
Repeated crop failures almost famished them.连年作物歉收几乎使他们饿死。
Some say that ravens foster other chicks whilst their own birds famish in their nests.
Did he marry me to famish me?
Mothers half alive carried their children famishing with hunger in their arms.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Hungry & thirsty
anorectic
anorexigenic
anti-hunger
appetite
be gaspingidiom
food poverty
hunger
hunger striker
hungrily
hungry
parched
smack your lipsidiom
starvation
starved
thirst
thirstily
thirsty
underfed
undernourished
voracity

Examples of famish


famish
The evacuees were famished when they arrived, having had no food for a matter of 12 hours.
We shall have millions of families actually famishing for want of fuel, while we have tens of thousands of miners unemployed.
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Hansard archive

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Whereby you must famish by wronging us your friends.
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