Word

famish, v.
(famished, famishes, famishing)

die of food deprivation
<verb.consumption> freq. cnt.: 3 freq. cnt.: 3

famish starve

sample sentences

"The political prisoners starved to death"
"Many famished in the countryside during the drought"

verb frames

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

verb frames

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

semantic pointers

hypernym

die, perish, pass away, go, expire, drop dead, croak, decease, exit, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, pop off, choke, snuff it

deprive of food
<verb.consumption> freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

famish starve

sample sentences

"They starved the prisoners"

verb frames

Somebody ----s somebody

verb frames

Somebody ----s somebody

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

starving starvation

antonym

feed

semantic pointers

cause

starve, hunger, famish

hypernym

deprive

verb group

starve

be hungry; go without food
<verb.consumption> freq. cnt.: 4 freq. cnt.: 4

famish hunger starve

sample sentences

"Let's eat--I'm starving!"

verb frames

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

verb frames

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

verb frames

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

starvation

antonym

be full

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

hunger

semantic pointers

hypernym

suffer, hurt