Definition of famish

• v. t. - To starve, kill, or destroy with hunger.
• 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.