| 单词 | famished |
| 释义 | famished (once / 2791 pages) adj Did you just order a double cheeseburger with large fries and a liter-sized milkshake? Either you have a death wish or you're extremely hungry — famished that is. Tracing the roots of famished leads us to the Middle English word for "starve." So it's no wonder famished means absolutely starving or totally ravenous. Just think of all those poor famished people in the Middle Ages, with only porridge and vegetables to eat and not a fast food chain in sight. It's enough to make you cry...or reach for another french fry — depending on how famished you are. WORD FAMILYfamish: famished, famishes, famishing, famishment USAGE EXAMPLESAimee Bender's bleak recipe for stone soup is presented by way of a short story wherein a mother teaches her famished children to cook imaginatively. Los Angeles Times(Dec 08, 2016) Obviously the school had had experience of pupils coming back famished. BBC(Oct 30, 2016) By the time we’d completed the last waterfall, we were tired and famished. New York Times(Oct 28, 2016) adj extremely hungry they were tired and famished for food and sleep Syn esurient, ravenous, sharp-set, starved hungry feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food |
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