famished

• Adjectif signifiant extrêmement affamé, qui a très faim.

An adjective meaning extremely hungry.

1. Extremely hungryB2informal

   Feeling a very strong need for food; starving.

   Affamé (extrêmement)

   • After the long hike, we were absolutely famished.
   • I skipped lunch, so by dinner time I was famished.
   • The children came home from school famished and ate everything in sight.

   Synonymesemptyhungrypeckishravenousstarvedstarving

   Antonymesfullsatiatedsatisfied

• Verbe vieilli signifiant affamer, faire souffrir de faim, ou mourir de faim. De nos jours, 'famished' s'emploie surtout comme adjectif au sens de « très affamé ».

To cause someone to suffer from extreme hunger; to starve. Now largely replaced by 'starve' in literal use, but the past participle 'famished' remains common in informal contexts to mean 'very hungry'.

1. Causing to starveC2formal

   To make someone suffer greatly from lack of food; to starve.

   Affamer

   • The siege threatened to starve the entire population.
   • They were cruelly starved by their captors.
   • The drought could bring famine and starve the region.
   • To deny them aid was effectively to sentence them to death by hunger.

   Synonymesmalnourishstarveundernourish

   Antonymesfeedglutnourishsatiate

2. To be or become very hungry (archaic verb, now only preserved in the adjective 'famished')informal

   To suffer extreme hunger; to be starving. The verb itself is obsolete in this intransitive use, but the concept survives in the adjective 'famished'.

   Être affamé

   • By the time dinner arrived, the children were completely famished.
   • I'm absolutely famished; let's grab something to eat now.
   • The hikers felt utterly famished after the long trek.
   • She claimed she was famished enough to eat a horse.

   Synonymeshungerstarve

   Antonymesgorgesatesatiatestuff