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.
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.