† enfamishv.
Obsolete.
transitive. To famish, starve.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > hunger > hunger for [verb (transitive)] > starve
famec1384
hunger-starve1390
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forclemc1400
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starve1570
hunger1575
clem?c1600
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affamish1615
a1400–50 Alexander (Dublin) 2153 Thare negh was fey for defaute enfamyshyd [Ashmole, enfamyschist] hys oste.
c1450 (c1400) Sowdon of Babylon (1881) l. 2141 Thay shalle enfamyched be.
a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) iii. xxxv. f. cccxxviiv/1 They sawe that they were enfamysshed.
1766–1800 in Bailey
1828 in N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. ; and in mod. Dicts.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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