famish

The President pondered, smiled, said: "Well, they can't famish on that."

From Time Magazine Archive

The last sounds which rang in my ears were the voices of the hungry gnomes, calling out, "Give us our victim; we famish."

From Tales of the Wonder Club Volume I by M. Y. Halidom

With their scant water supply at a distance and unprotected they could not hold out long in a siege, but would soon be compelled either to fight, fly or famish.

From Arizona Sketches by J. A. (Joseph Amasa) Munk

Bennet, contained in the first volume of the Geological Society Transactions, may famish the inquisitive reader with a short summary of the principal appearances on which this opinion rests.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 12 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

Let Descartes, and Polignac, and Reid, and Cudworth, et id omne genus, famish themselves in this desert; but ask it not of César Prévost!

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 by Various