Word Meanings - ENFAMISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To famish; to starve.

Related words: (words related to ENFAMISH)

• STARVELING
  One who, or that which, pines from lack or food, or nutriment. Old Sir John hangs with me, and thou knowest he is no starveling. Shak.
• STARVEDLY
  In the condition of one starved or starving; parsimoniously. Some boasting housekeeper which keepth open doors for one day, . . . and lives starvedly all the year after. Bp. Hall.
• FAMISH
  1. To starve, kill, or destroy with hunger. Shak. 2. To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to distress with hanger. And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. Cen. xli. 55. The pains
• STARVE
  In hot coals he hath himself raked . . . Thus starved this worthy mighty Hercules. Chaucer. 2. To perish with hunger; to suffer extreme hunger or want; to be very indigent. Sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed. Pope. 3. To perish or die
• FAMISHMENT
  State of being famished.
• AFFAMISHMENT
  Starvation. Bp. Hall.
• AFFAMISH
  To afflict with, or perish from, hunger. Spenser.
• WIT-STARVED
  Barren of wit; destitute of genius. Examiner.
• HUNGER-STARVE
  To starve with hunger; to famish. Shak.
• ENFAMISH
  To famish; to starve.