Famish



GRE

解释

GRE 红宝书

• v.使饥饿
• ［英］ v.使饥饿 ( to make or be very hungry)
• ［类］ 反义词: surfeit ( 使过饱)

Webster Collegiate

verb

• Etymology: Middle English, probably alteration of famen, from Anglo-French afamer, from Vulgar Latin *affamare, from Latin ad- + fames
• Date: 15th century
• transitive verb
  • 1. to cause to suffer severely from hunger
  • 2. archaic to cause to starve to death
• intransitive verb
  • 1. archaic starve
  • 2. to suffer for lack of something necessary <a moment when French poetry in particular was famishing for such invention — T. S. Eliot>
• ? famishment noun

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