FAMISHED
famished, ravenous, sharp-set, starved, esurient
(adjective) extremely hungry; “they were tired and famished for food and sleep”; “a ravenous boy”; “the family was starved and ragged”; “fell into the esurient embrance of a predatory enemy”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Inflected forms.
Verb
famished
simple past tense and past participle of famish
Adjective
famished (comparative more famished, superlative most famished)
Extremely hungry.
Source: Wiktionary
FAMISH
Fam"ish, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Famished; p. pr. & vb. n. Famishing.]
Etym: [OE. famen; cf. OF. afamer, L. fames. See Famine, and cf.
Affamish.]
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 of famished Tantalus he'll feel. Dryden.
3. To kill, or to cause to suffer extremity, by deprivation or denial
of anything necessary.
And famish him of breath, if not of bread. Milton.
4. To force or constrain by famine.
He had famished Paris into a surrender. Burke.
Fam"ish, v. i.
1. To die of hunger; to starve.
2. To suffer extreme hunger or thirst, so as to be exhausted in
strength, or to come near to perish.
You are all resolved rather to die than to famish Shak.
3. To suffer extremity from deprivation of anything essential or
necessary.
The Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish. Prov.
x. 3.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition