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1. Extremely hungry
   "they were tired and famished for food and sleep"
   - ravenous, sharp-set, starved, esurient

1. Be hungry; go without food
   - starve, hunger
    
2. Deprive of food
   - starve
    
3. Die of food deprivation
   "Many famished in the countryside during the drought"
   - starve

See also: hungry

Type of: buy the farm [N. Amer], cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, deprive, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, hurt, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, pop one's clogs, snuff it, suffer

Encyclopedia: Famish