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Definition of famished adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

famished

adjective

/ˈfæmɪʃt/

/ˈfæmɪʃt/

[not usually before noun] (informal, becoming old-fashioned)

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very hungry synonym starve
- When's lunch? I'm famished!
- famished refugees
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Word Originlate Middle English: past participle of the verb famish, from Middle English fame ‘starve’, from Old French afamer, based on Latin fames ‘hunger’.

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