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Word Meanings - AFFAMISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To afflict with, or perish from, hunger. Spenser.

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  • 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.

 

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