单词 | to famish with hunger |
释义 | > as lemmasto famish with hunger ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > manner of death > die in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > die of hunger astervec1000 enfamine138. bursta1440 famish1530 famine1553 starve1578 affamish1622 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 545/1 I famysshe for honger, je affame. 1551 R. Crowley Pleasure & Payne sig. Bviv If the pore famyshed for lacke of fode. a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) ii. ii. 84 Thou shalt famish a Dogges death. View more context for this quotation 1670 J. Milton Hist. Brit. v. 218 A small Iland where many of them famish'd. 1683 W. Soames tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Art of Poetry iv. 186 Now none famish who deserve to eat. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 118 They had all miserably famished with hunger. < as lemmas |
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