Associations to the word «Famished»

Wiktionary

FAMISHED, verb. Simple past tense and past participle of famish
FAMISHED, adjective. Extremely hungry.

Dictionary definition

FAMISHED, adjective. Extremely hungry; "they were tired and famished for food and sleep"; "a ravenous boy"; "the family was starved and ragged"; "fell into the esurient embrance of a predatory enemy".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope