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Famished vs Devouring - What's the difference?

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Famished is a related term of devouring.


As verbs the difference between famished and devouring

is that famished is (famish) while devouring is .

As an adjective famished

is extremely hungry.

As a noun devouring is

the act by which something is devoured.

famished

English

Verb

(head)
  • (famish)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Extremely hungry.

    • devouring

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is devoured.
  • * 1982 , Frederick Asals, Flannery O'Connor, the Imagination of Extremity (page 189)
    • But like all the other symbolic devourings in the novel, this one too brings its revelation.