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(obsolete) To starve (to death); to kill or destroy with hunger.

*, I.iv.1:

*:Even so did Corellius Rufus, another grave senator, by the relation of Plinius Secundus, Epist. lib.1, epist.12 , famish himself to death […].

To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to distress with hunger.

:*And when all the land of Egypt was famished , the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. -- Gen. xli. 55.

:*The pains of famished Tantalus he'll feel. --Dryden.

To kill, or to cause to suffer extremity, by deprivation or denial of anything necessary.

:*And famish him of breath, if not of bread. -- Milton.

To force or constrain by famine.

:*He had famished Paris into a surrender. -- Burke.

To die of hunger; to starve.

To suffer extreme hunger or thirst, so as to be exhausted in strength, or to come near to perish.

:*You are all resolved rather to die than to famish ? -- Shakespeare

To suffer extremity from deprivation of anything essential or necessary.

:*The Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish . -- Prov. x. 3.

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*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Joseph Stiglitz)

, volume=188, issue=26, page=19, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Globalisation is about taxes too , passage=It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.}}