famishes
Leaves extremely hungry
Famishes is the third-person singular form of famish, meaning to suffer or cause to suffer extreme hunger.
The word is somewhat literary and old-fashioned, more common in its past participle: I'm famished means intensely hungry.
The siege famishes the city describes deliberate starvation.
Famish can also mean to starve emotionally: a soul famished for affection.
Dies from hunger
- emaciatedAbnormally wasted from hunger
- gauntLean from deprivation
- skeletalOf or like bones
- wastedUsed without good result
withered · ravenous · starving · weakened · feeble · frail · cadaverous · pinched
Desire for food
- cravingsIntense desires for something
- pangsSudden sharp sensations
- gnawingPersistent biting action
- growlingDeep threatening vocalization
peckish · empty · ravenous · voracious · insatiable · yearning · longing · craving
Insufficiency of something needed
- wantTo desire something
- deficiencyLack of something needed
- shortageDeficient supply of necessities
- lackDeficiency or absence
dearth · privation · insufficiency · need · absence · denial · withholding · depriving
starves
Dies from hunger
wasted · withered · ravenous · starving · weakened · feeble · frail · cadaverous · pinched · hollow
appetite
Desire for food
growling · peckish · empty · ravenous · voracious · insatiable · yearning · longing · craving · aching
scarcity
Insufficiency of something needed
- wantTo desire something
- deficiencyLack of something needed
- shortageDeficient supply of necessities
lack · dearth · privation · insufficiency · need · absence · denial · withholding · depriving · restricting
starvation
Extreme nutritional deprivation
- food crisisSevere shortage of sustenance
- crop failureWhen fields yield nothing
- droughtProlonged water scarcity
blight · scarcity · disaster · emergency · relief · aid · rations · siege · blockade · wartime