Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The pain of extreme hunger or thirst; extremity from want of food.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun State of being famished.
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- noun
Starvation ; the fact or process of beingfamished . - noun obsolete
Famine .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a state of extreme hunger resulting from lack of essential nutrients over a prolonged period
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Examples
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During the short passage to the coach house I had been trying to consider my course: but my state of famishment and the agitation into which I had been thrown had bereft me of all power of consecutive thought; so that when the gentleman called upon me, in no gentle tones, to give an account of myself, I stood like a stock fish before him.
Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow Herbert Strang
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The marriage of Eliza La Heu and John Mayrant was of a different quality; no paper pronounced it "up to date," or bestowed any other adjectival comments upon it; for, being solemnized in Kings Port, where such purely personal happenings are still held (by the St. Michael family, at any rate) to be no business of any one's save those immediately concerned, the event escaped the famishment of publicity.
Lady Baltimore Owen Wister 1899
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And she must love so, else she would die of famishment.
The Indian Lily and Other Stories Hermann Sudermann 1892
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We've got a fair chance o 'goin' un'er yet, eyther from thirst or the famishment o 'empty stomaks.
The Lone Ranche Mayne Reid 1850
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Is Gastronomi, a system to measure the famishment of the driver to avoid the dangers of driving hunger that unbelievable?
Jalopnik Matt Hardigree 2010
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On many plantations, and particularly in Louisiana, the slaves are in a condition of _almost utter famishment_ during a great portion of the year. "
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society
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Louisiana, the slaves are in a condition of _almost utter famishment, _ during a great portion of the year. "
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society
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Louisiana, the slaves are in a condition of _almost utter famishment, _ during a great portion of the year. "
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society
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On many plantations, and particularly in Louisiana, the slaves are in a condition of _almost utter famishment_ during a great portion of the year. "
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society
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On many plantations, and particularly in Louisiana, the slaves are in a condition of almost utter famishment, during a great portion of the year. "
American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses 1839
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