famished
adjective /ˈfæmɪʃt/
/ˈfæmɪʃt/
[not usually before noun] (informal, becoming old-fashioned)- very hungry synonym starve
- When's lunch? I'm famished!
- famished refugees
Word Originlate Middle English: past participle of the verb famish, from Middle English fame ‘starve’, from Old French afamer, based on Latin fames ‘hunger’.