Crossword-Solution: FAMISH
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Famish | v. t. | To starve, kill, or destroy with hunger. |
| Famish | v. t. | To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to distress with hanger. |
| Famish | v. t. | To kill, or to cause to suffer extremity, by deprivation or denial of anything necessary. |
| Famish | v. t. | To force or constrain by famine. |
| Famish | v. i. | To die of hunger; to starve. |
| Famish | v. i. | To suffer extreme hunger or thirst, so as to be exhausted in strength, or to come near to perish. |
| Famish | v. i. | To suffer extremity from deprivation of anything essential or necessary. |
| Famish | a. | Smoky; hot; choleric. |
We have 15 clues for the answer “FAMISH”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Suffer extreme hunger | 1 answer |
| Don't feed | 1 answer |
| Hunger greatly | 1 answer |
| Make fast, maybe | 1 answer |
| Make very hungry | 1 answer |
| Opposite of "gorge" | 1 answer |
| Reduce to extreme hunger | 1 answer |
| Starve, to Shakespeare | 1 answer |
| Withhold nourishment | 1 answer |
| be or make very hungry or weak | 1 answer |
| Bant | 5 answers |
| CAUSE HUNGER | 10 answers |
| Starve | 31 answers |
| MAKE lean | 38 answers |
| Hunger | 66 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTEEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with FAMISH (5)
For since thy good works, not thy goods will follow thee; since riches are an appurtenance of life, and no dead man is rich, to famish in plenty, and live poorly to die rich, were a multiplying improvement in madness and use upon use in folly.
With their scant water supply at a distance and unprotected they could not hold out long in a siege, but would soon be compelled either to fight, fly or famish.
Jack rode in a doublet, with a yoke of prick-ears, A cursed splay-mouth and a Covenant spur, Rides switching and spurring with jealousies and fears, Till the poor famish’d beast was not able to stir.
What towns of any moment but we have? At pleasure here we lie near Orleans, Otherwhiles the famish’d English, like pale ghosts, Faintly besiege us one hour in a month.
Fie on ambitions! Fie on myself, that have a sword and yet am ready to famish! These five days have I hid me in these woods and durst not peep out, for all the country is laid for me; but now am I so hungry that if I might have a lease of my life for a thousand years, I could stay no longer.
Quotes with FAMISH (1)
I have fled from the wilderness fasting, with woe and unflagging travail, I have sought for the light on the mountain, and skirted the devilish dale. I have laid my mouth in the dust, and begged the Might to be kind, I have come to the feast, and I famish. Now grant me the Holy Grail.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 25 times in crossword archives (1977–2023).