famish

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Relief must soon come from some quarter, else many in this community will famish.

From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by Jones, John Beauchamp

It requires nothing more of the Regicides than to famish some sort of excuse, some sort of colorable pretest, for our renewing the supplications of innocence at the feet of guilt.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

Deprive her of that, and you starve her as effectually as you famish a human being by abstraction of food.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 450 Volume 18, New Series, August 14, 1852 by Chambers, Robert

The gorging a royal kitchen may stint and famish the negotiations of a kingdom.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund