| 释义 |
famished, ppl. a.|ˈfæmɪʃt|
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
In senses of the vb. Also in comb., as famished-looking adj.
a1450Knt. de la Tour (1868) 28 The pore pepille..lene and famisshed for hunger. 1591Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, i. ii. 7 The famisht English..Faintly besiege vs one houre in a moneth. a1682Sir T. Browne Tracts 59 Poor and half famished fellows despised him. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. III. 167 The famished host of Radagaisus was in its turn besieged. 1828Miss Mitford Village Ser. iii, (1863) 467 A long, lean, famished-looking boy. 1869Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) III. xii. 138 Some rode on famished horses.
fig.1633G. Herbert Temple, Longing i, With sick & famisht eyes..To thee my sighs..ascend. 1877Bryant Poems, Third of November 1861 vi, Howling, like a wolf, flies the famished northern blast. |