Crossword-Solution: FAMISHED
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Famished | imp. & p. p. | of Famish |
We have 74 clues for the answer “FAMISHED”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Too hungry | 1 answer |
| Hungry as a bear | 1 answer |
| Very hungry | 5 answers |
| Extremely hungry | 5 answers |
| A FRENCH DUKE UNEXPECTEDLY FREED IN A STARVED CONDITION | 10 answers |
| Ravenous | 14 answers |
| raptorial | 27 answers |
| Plundering. | 27 answers |
| ravening | 28 answers |
| hawklike | 28 answers |
| ravaging | 29 answers |
| predacious | 29 answers |
| grabbing | 29 answers |
| thieving | 30 answers |
| extortionate | 32 answers |
| predatory | 35 answers |
| Rapacious | 36 answers |
| insatiable | 36 answers |
| Voracious | 40 answers |
| Acquisitive | 40 answers |
| Parsimonious | 42 answers |
| penurious | 42 answers |
| cartilaginous | 43 answers |
| Peaky | 44 answers |
| gangly | 44 answers |
| Gangling | 44 answers |
| Stringy | 44 answers |
| fleshless | 44 answers |
| Undernourished | 44 answers |
| grudging | 44 answers |
| Gluttonous | 44 answers |
| Rangy | 45 answers |
| Spindly | 45 answers |
| greedy | 45 answers |
| reedy | 46 answers |
| Bony | 46 answers |
| scraggy | 47 answers |
| Covetous | 47 answers |
| lank | 47 answers |
| grasping | 48 answers |
| Lanky | 48 answers |
| wiry | 48 answers |
| Drawn | 49 answers |
| skeletal | 49 answers |
| malnourished | 49 answers |
| Stingy | 51 answers |
| Underfed | 51 answers |
| Gaunt | 52 answers |
| removing | 52 answers |
| Sparse | 52 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTEAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with FAMISHED (5)
One of the bystanders said to him, “My good fellow, why do you sell him, being such a one as you describe, when you may yourself enjoy the good things he has to give?” “Why,” he replied, “I am in need of immediate help, and he is wont to give his good gifts very slowly.” The Fox and the Grapes A FAMISHED FOX saw some clusters of ripe black grapes hanging from a trellised vine.
Others of some note, As story tells, have trod this wilderness: The fugitive Bond-woman, with her son, Outcast Nebaioth, yet found here relief By a providing Angel; all the race 310 Of Israel here had famished, had not God Rained from heaven manna; and that Prophet bold, Native of Thebez, wandering here, was fed Twice by a voice inviting him to eat.
Only a few berries and an occasional grub worm rewarded his search, and he was half famished when, looking up from a log he had been rooting beneath, he saw Sabor, the lioness, standing in the center of the trail not twenty paces from him.
All that night the creature pursued its lonely way, and the next day it halted only to make a single kill, which it tore to fragments and devoured with sullen, grumbling rumbles as though half famished for lack of food.
From such household occupations as their bare poverty yielded, from their children, from their aged and their sick crouching on the bare ground famished and naked, they ran out with streaming hair, urging one another, and themselves, to madness with the wildest cries and actions.
Quotes with FAMISHED (3)
I'm not hungry," Alexander whispered. "I'm famished. Watch out for me. Now, don't make a single sound," he said, moving on top of her. "Tania, God.... I'll cover your mouth, just like this, and you hold on to me, just like this, and I'm going to-just like this-
The steel door of the incinerator went up and the muted hum of the eternal fire became a red roaring. The heat lunged out at them like a famished beast. Then Rahel's Ammu was fed to it. Her hair, her skin, her smile. Her voice. They way she used Kipling to love her children before putting them to bed: We be of one blood, though and I. Her goodnight kiss. The way she held their faces steady with one hand (squashed-cheeked, fish-mouthed) while she parted and combed their hair w…
By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes. For famished nature will be avenged and a hard heart is no infallible protection against a soft head.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1977–2020).