famish
Example Sentences
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The President pondered, smiled, said: "Well, they can't famish on that."
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Robert Chambers
So viands were produced; to which the guests were invited to pay heedful attention; or take the consequences, and famish till the long voyage in prospect was ended.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Herman Melville
"Well, donOt famish yourself on account of me."
From Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America by Steven (Steven David Justin) Sills
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.
