English Dictionary

famish

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈfamɪʃ/

動詞

廃用 他動詞 自動詞

(obsolete, transitive) To starve (to death); to kill or destroy with hunger. / (transitive) To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to cause to be very hungry.

日本語の意味

飢餓によって死に至らせる、あるいは殺す（古い用法） / 飢えにより体力や耐力を枯渇させ、非常に飢えさせる

The besiegers tried to famish the city's population, and many perished from hunger.

包囲軍は都市の住民を飢え死にさせようとし、多くが飢えで亡くなった。

意味（1）

(obsolete, transitive) To starve (to death); to kill or destroy with hunger.

Some ſay that Rauens foſter forlorne children, / The whilſt their owne birds famiſh in their neſts: / Oh be to me though thy hard hart ſay no, / Nothing ſo kinde but ſomething pittiful.

意味（2）

(transitive) To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to cause to be very hungry.

And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread.

意味（3）

(transitive) To kill, or to cause great suffering to, by depriving or denying anything necessary.

And famish him of breath, if not of bread?

意味（4）

(transitive) To force, control, or constrain by famine.

He had […]famished Paris into a surrender.

意味（5）

(intransitive) To die of hunger; to starve to death.

意味（6）

(intransitive) To suffer extreme hunger or thirst, so as to be exhausted in strength, or to nearly perish.

You are all resolved rather to die than to famish?

意味（7）

(intransitive) To suffer extremity from deprivation of anything essential or necessary.

The Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish.

famishes （ present singular third-person ）

famishing （ participle present ）

famished （ participle past ）

famished （ past ）