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Word: Famish
Speech Type: Verb
Etymology:
Middle English: from obsolete fame ‘starve, famish’, from Old French afamer, based on Latin fames ‘hunger’
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈfamɪʃ
Dialects: British English
Definition:
reduce (someone) to extreme hunger
Short Definition:reduce someone to extreme hunger
Examples:- they had famished the city into surrender
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