famish

• 古旧动词：使挨饿、使饥饿。现在常用其形容词形式 'famished'，意为“非常饥饿的”。

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.

   使挨饿，使饥饿

   • 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.

   同义词malnourishstarveundernourish

   反义词feedglutnourishsatiate

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 The verb itself is obsolete in this intransitive use, but the concept survives in the adjective 'famished'.

   极度饥饿，饿得要死（古旧动词，今仅存形容词 famished）

   • 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.

   同义词hungerstarve

   反义词gorgesatesatiatestuff