Word Meanings - AFFAMISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To afflict with, or perish from, hunger. Spenser.
Related words: (words related to AFFAMISH)
- AFFLICTIVELY
In an afflictive manner. - PERISHMENT
The act of perishing. Udall. - AFFLICTIVE
Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing. "Jove's afflictive hand." Pope. Spreads slow disease, and darts afflictive pain. Prior. - PERISHABILITY
Perishableness. - AFFLICTING
Grievously painful; distressing; afflictive; as, an afflicting event. -- Af*flict"ing*ly, adv. - AFFLICTION
1. The cause of continued pain of body or mind, as sickness, losses, etc.; an instance of grievous distress; a pain or grief. To repay that money will be a biting affliction. Shak. 2. The state of being afflicted; a state of pain, distress, or - HUNGERER
One who hungers; one who longs. Lamb. - AFFLICTIONLESS
Free from affliction. - HUNGER
& OHG. hungar, G. hunger, Icel. hungr, Sw. & Dan. hunger, Goth. h 1. An uneasy sensation occasioned normally by the want of food; a craving or desire for food. Note: The sensation of hunger is usually referred to the stomach, but is probably - AFFLICTEDNESS
The state of being afflicted; affliction. Bp. Hall. - AFFLICTER
One who afflicts. - HUNGER-BIT; HUNGER-BITTEN
Pinched or weakened by hunger. Milton. - AFFLICT
Afflicted. Becon. - HUNGERED
Hungry; pinched for food. Milton. - PERISHABLE
Liable to perish; subject to decay, destruction, or death; as, perishable goods; our perishable bodies. - HUNGERLY
Wanting food; starved. Shak. - PERISHABLENESS
The quality or state of being perishable; liability to decay or destruction. Locke. - SPENSERIAN
Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faƫrie Queene." - HUNGER-STARVE
To starve with hunger; to famish. Shak. - PERISHABLY
In a perishable degree or manner. - DISPENSER
One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors. - EMPERISHED
Perished; decayed. I deem thy brain emperished be. Spenser. - VIPERISH
Somewhat like a viper; viperous. - ANHUNGERED
Ahungered; longing. - COPPERISH
Containing, or partaking of the nature of, copper; like copper; as, a copperish taste. - IMPERISHABILITY
The quality of being imperishable: indstructibility. "The imperishability of the universe." Milman. - UNPERISHABLE
Imperishable.