famishing
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
Famish \Fam"ish\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Famished; p. pr. & vb. n. Famishing.] [OE. famen; cf. OF. afamer, L. fames. See Famine, and cf. Affamish.]
1.To starve, kill, or destroy with hunger. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
2.To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to distress with hanger. [1913 Webster]
And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread.— Cen. xli. 55.[1913 Webster]
The pains of famished Tantalus he'll feel.— Dryden.[1913 Webster]
3.To kill, or to cause to suffer extremity, by deprivation or denial of anything necessary. [1913 Webster]
And famish him of breath, if not of bread.— Milton.[1913 Webster]
4.To force or constrain by famine. [1913 Webster]
He had famished Paris into a surrender.— Burke.[1913 Webster]