affamish

verb

-ed/-ing/-es

transitive verb

obsolete : to cause to hunger : starve

intransitive verb

obsolete : to suffer or die from hunger : starve

Word History

Etymology

modification (influenced by famish) of Middle French affamer, afamer

First Known Use

1615, in the meaning defined at transitive sense

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