1. Extremely hungry
   "they were tired and famished for food and sleep";
   - ravenous, sharp-set, starved, esurient

1. Be hungry; go without food
   "Let's eat — I'm famishing!";
   - starve, hunger
    
2. Deprive of food
   "The siege famished the city's population";
   - starve
    
3. Die of food deprivation
   "Many famished in the countryside during the drought";
   - starve

See also: hungry

Type of: ache, buy the farm [N. Amer, informal], cash in [informal], cash in one's chips [informal], conk [informal], cop it [Brit, informal], croak [informal], decease [archaic], deprive, die, drop dead [informal], exit, expire, flatline [informal], give up the ghost [informal], go, hurt, kick the bucket [informal], pass, pass away, pass on, perish, pop off [informal], pop one's clogs [informal], snuff it [informal], suffer

Antonym: feed

Encyclopedia: Famish