famishing

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famishing verb

To starve (to death); to kill or destroy with hunger.
To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to distress with hunger.
To kill, or to cause to suffer extremity, by deprivation or denial of anything necessary.
To force or constrain by famine.

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hungry esurient sharp-set starved ravenous famishes hungering hungered starving hunger faming starvation hunger pangs hungred hungers hungrily

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