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Famish (Verb)

Be hungry; go without food; "Let's eat--I'm starving!".

Verbs of eating and drinking.

After skipping breakfast and lunch, she began to famish by mid-afternoon.
Traveling through the wilderness for hours, the adventurer started to famish and desperately sought edible plants.
After several days without nourishment, the protesting activist started to famish and weaken.
The group was stranded on the island for days, forced to famish and search for food.
After weeks of scarce rations, the sailors began to famish, their bodies weakened by the prolonged lack of proper nutrition.

Die of food deprivation; "The political prisoners starved to death"; "Many famished in the countryside during the drought".

Verbs of eating and drinking.

Many people began to famish in the war-torn region due to severe food shortages and economic collapse.
The villagers who lived off the land started to famish during the severe drought that lasted for months.
Years of civil war left the country on the brink of disaster as thousands began to famish from lack of food.
Elderly citizens, already vulnerable to disease, were among the first to famish in the abandoned town.
It was reported that a family of four eventually did famish while stranded in the remote wilderness for several weeks.

Deprive of food; "They starved the prisoners".

Verbs of eating and drinking.

The refugees were left to famish with no aid or supplies in sight.
The cruel ruler decided to famish the village in an attempt to break their spirits.
Famine had struck the land, and the city was on the brink of being forced to famish.
When they found the abandoned puppy, it was clear that someone had attempted to famish the poor animal.
As the siege dragged on, the people inside the castle began to famish from the lack of provisions.