famishedadj.

Brit.

/ˈfamɪʃt/, U.S.

/ˈfæmɪʃt/

Etymology: < famish v. + -ed suffix¹.

In senses of the verb. Also in combinations, as famished-looking adj.

ΚΠ

a1450 Knt. de la Tour (1868) 28 The pore pepille..lene and famisshed for hunger.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) i. ii. 7 The famisht English..Faintly besiege vs one houre in a moneth.

a1682 Sir T. Browne Certain Misc. Tracts (1683) i. 59 Poor and half famished fellows despised him.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. 167 The famished host of Radagaisus was in its turn besieged.

1828 M. R. Mitford Our Village III. 16 A long, lean, famished-looking boy.

1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) III. xii. 138 Some rode on famished horses.

figurative.1633 G. Herbert Longong in Temple i With sick & famisht eyes..To thee my sighs..ascend.1877 W. C. Bryant Third of Nov. in Poems 1861 vi Howling, like a wolf, flies the famished northern blast.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	famished
释义	famishedadj. Brit. /ˈfamɪʃt/, U.S. /ˈfæmɪʃt/ Etymology: < famish v. + -ed suffix¹. In senses of the verb. Also in combinations, as famished-looking adj. ΚΠ a1450 Knt. de la Tour (1868) 28 The pore pepille..lene and famisshed for hunger. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) i. ii. 7 The famisht English..Faintly besiege vs one houre in a moneth. View more context for this quotation a1682 Sir T. Browne Certain Misc. Tracts (1683) i. 59 Poor and half famished fellows despised him. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. 167 The famished host of Radagaisus was in its turn besieged. 1828 M. R. Mitford Our Village III. 16 A long, lean, famished-looking boy. 1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) III. xii. 138 Some rode on famished horses. figurative.1633 G. Herbert Longong in Temple i With sick & famisht eyes..To thee my sighs..ascend.1877 W. C. Bryant Third of Nov. in Poems 1861 vi Howling, like a wolf, flies the famished northern blast. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1450
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