Synonyms of the word famish


FAMISHCHOKE - CONK - CROAK - DECEASE - DEPRIVE - DIE - EXIT - EXPIRE - GO - HUNGER - HURT - PASS - PERISH - STARVE - SUFFER

famish

  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To starve (to death); to kill or destroy with hunger.
  • v. (transitive) To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to distress with hunger.
  • v. (transitive) To kill, or to cause to suffer extremity, by deprivation or denial of anything necessary.
  • v. (transitive) To force or constrain by famine.
  • v. (intransitive) To die of hunger; to starve.
  • v. (intransitive) To suffer extreme hunger or thirst, so as to be exhausted in strength, or to come near…
  • v. (intransitive) To suffer extremity from deprivation of anything essential or necessary.

choke

  • v. (intransitive) To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe, for instance food or other…
  • v. (transitive) To prevent someone from breathing by strangling or filling the windpipe.
  • v. To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up.
  • v. To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle.
  • v. (intransitive, fluid mechanics, of a duct) to reach a condition of maximum flowrate, due to the flow at…
  • v. (intransitive) To perform badly at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially…
  • v. To move one's fingers very close to the tip of a pencil, brush or other art tool.
  • v. To be checked, as if by choking; to stick.
  • v. To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling.
  • v. To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.
  • n. A control on a carburetor to adjust the air/fuel mixture when the engine is cold.
  • n. (sports) In wrestling, karate (etc.), a type of hold that can result in strangulation.
  • n. A constriction at the muzzle end of a shotgun barrel which affects the spread of the shot.
  • n. A partial or complete blockage (of boulders, mud, etc.) in a cave passage.
  • n. The mass of immature florets in the centre of the bud of an artichoke.
  • n. (electronics) choking coil.
  • n. A major mistake at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially when one is winning.

conk

  • n. The shelf- or bracket-shaped fruiting body of a bracket fungus (also called a shelf fungus), i.e. a mushroom…
  • n. (slang) A nose, especially a large one.
  • n. Alternative spelling of conch.
  • v. (slang) To hit, especially on the head.
  • n. (US, dated) A hairstyle involving the chemical straightening and styling of kinky hair.
  • v. (US, dated) To chemically straighten tightly curled hair.

croak

  • n. A faint, harsh sound made in the throat.
  • n. The cry of a frog or toad. (see also ribbit).
  • n. The cry of various birds, such as the raven or corncrake, or other creatures.
  • v. (intransitive) To make a croak.
  • v. (transitive) To utter in a low, hoarse voice.
  • v. (intransitive, of a frog, toad, raven, or various other birds or animals) To make its cry.
  • v. (slang) To die.
  • v. (transitive, slang) To kill someone or something.
  • v. To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually.

decease

  • n. (formal) Death, departure from life.
  • v. (now rare) To die.

deprive

  • v. To take something away (and keep it away); deny someone of something.

die

  • v. (intransitive) To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
  • v. (transitive) To stop living and undergo (a specified death).
  • v. (intransitive, figuratively) To yearn intensely.
  • v. (intransitive, idiomatic) To be utterly cut off by family or friends, as if dead.
  • v. (intransitive, figuratively) To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial) To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
  • v. (figuratively, intransitive) To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.
  • v. (intransitive, of a machine) To stop working, to break down.
  • v. (intransitive, of a computer program) To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
  • v. To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.
  • v. To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
  • v. (often with "to") To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.
  • v. (transitive, video games) To be killed by an enemy. Usually followed by to or another preposition.
  • v. (architecture) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved…
  • v. To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
  • v. (of a stand-up comedian or a joke) To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.
  • n. The cubical part of a pedestal, a plinth.
  • n. A device for cutting into a specified shape.
  • n. A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.).
  • n. A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.
  • n. An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.
  • n. (electronics) (plural also dice) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform…
  • n. Any small cubical or square body.
  • n. A regular polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance.
  • n. (obsolete) That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.
  • n. (electronics) (plural also dies) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform…
  • n. Obsolete spelling of dye.
  • v. Obsolete spelling of dye.

exit

  • n. A way out.
  • n. A passage or gate from inside someplace to the outside, outgang.
  • n. The action of leaving.
  • n. Death.
  • v. To go out.
  • v. To leave.
  • v. To die.

expire

  • v. (intransitive) to die.
  • v. (intransitive) to become invalid.
  • v. (intransitive) to exhale; to breathe (out).
  • v. (transitive) to exhale (something).
  • v. (transitive) To give forth insensibly or gently, as a fluid or vapour; to emit in minute particles.
  • v. (transitive) To bring to a close; to terminate.

go

  • v. To move.
  • v. (intransitive, chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
  • v. (intransitive) To start; to begin (an action or process).
  • v. (intransitive) To take a turn, especially in a game.
  • v. (intransitive) To attend.
  • v. To proceed.
  • v. To follow or travel along (a path).
  • v. (intransitive) To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
  • v. (intransitive) To lead (to a place); to give access to.
  • v. (copula) To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.).
  • v. To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
  • v. (intransitive) To continuously or habitually be in a state.
  • v. To come to (a certain condition or state).
  • v. (intransitive) To change (from one value to another).
  • v. To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
  • v. (intransitive) To tend (toward a result).
  • v. To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
  • v. To pass, to be used up.
  • v. (intransitive) To die.
  • v. (intransitive) To be discarded.
  • v. (intransitive, cricket) To be lost or out.
  • v. To break down or apart.
  • v. (intransitive) To be sold.
  • v. (intransitive) To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
  • v. (transitive, sports) To have a certain record.
  • v. To be authoritative, accepted, or valid.
  • v. To say (something), to make a sound.
  • v. To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
  • v. (intransitive) To resort (to).
  • v. To apply or subject oneself to.
  • v. To fit (in a place, or together with something).
  • v. (intransitive) To date.
  • v. To attack.
  • v. To be in general; to be usually.
  • v. (transitive) To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
  • v. (transitive) To yield or weigh.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
  • v. (transitive, colloquial) To enjoy. (Compare go for.).
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial) To urinate or defecate.
  • n. (uncommon) The act of going.
  • n. A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
  • n. An attempt, a try.
  • n. An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
  • n. An act; the working or operation.
  • n. (slang, dated) A circumstance or occurrence; an incident.
  • n. (dated) The fashion or mode.
  • n. (dated) Noisy merriment.
  • n. (slang, archaic) A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.
  • n. Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
  • n. (cribbage) The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above…
  • n. A period of activity.
  • n. (obsolete, British slang) A dandy; a fashionable person.
  • n. (board games) A strategic board game, originally from China, in which two players (black and white) attempt…

hunger

  • n. A need or compelling desire for food.
  • n. (by extension) Any strong desire.
  • v. To be in need of food.
  • v. (figuratively, usually with 'for' or 'after') To have a desire (for); to long; to yearn.
  • v. (archaic) To make hungry; to famish.

hurt

  • v. (intransitive) To be painful.
  • v. (transitive) To cause (a creature) physical pain and/or injury.
  • v. (transitive) To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
  • v. (transitive) To undermine, impede, or damage.
  • adj. Wounded, physically injured.
  • adj. Pained.
  • n. An emotional or psychological hurt (humiliation or bad experience).
  • n. (archaic) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.
  • n. (archaic) injury; damage; detriment; harm.
  • n. (heraldry) A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
  • n. (engineering) A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
  • n. A husk.

pass

  • v. (heading) Physical movement.
  • v. (heading) To change in state or status, to advance.
  • v. (heading) To move through time.
  • v. (heading) To be accepted.
  • v. (intransitive) In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.
  • v. (heading) To do or be better.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To take heed.
  • n. An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise…
  • n. A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
  • n. A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
  • n. A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
  • n. An attempt.
  • n. (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
  • n. (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
  • n. A sexual advance.
  • n. (sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
  • n. (rail transport) A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into…
  • n. Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
  • n. A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit…
  • n. (baseball) An intentional walk.
  • n. The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
  • n. (obsolete) Estimation; character.
  • n. (obsolete, Chaucer) A part, a division. Compare passus.
  • n. (cooking) The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the…
  • n. An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
  • n. (computing) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
  • n. (computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).

perish

  • v. (intransitive) To pass away; to come to naught; to waste away; to decay and disappear.
  • v. (intransitive) To die; to cease to live.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to perish.

starve

  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To die; in later use especially to die slowly, waste away.
  • v. (intransitive) To die because of lack of food or of not eating.
  • v. (intransitive) To be very hungry.
  • v. (transitive) To destroy, make capitulate or at least make suffer by deprivation, notably of food.
  • v. (transitive) To deprive of nourishment.
  • v. (transitive, Britain, especially Yorkshire and Lancashire) To kill with cold.

suffer

  • v. (intransitive) To undergo hardship.
  • v. (intransitive) To feel pain.
  • v. (intransitive) To become worse.
  • v. (transitive) To endure, undergo.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To allow.

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