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Starve vs Affamish - What's the difference?

starve | affamish |

As verbs the difference between starve and affamish

is that starve is to die; in later use especially to die slowly, waste away while affamish is to cause (somebody) to die of hunger; to starve.

starve

English

(wikipedia starve)

Verb

  • (obsolete) To die; in later use especially to die slowly, waste away.
  • * 1596 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , IV.i.4:
    • noble Britomart / Released her, that else was like to sterue , / Through cruell knife that her deare heart did kerue.
  • To die because of lack of food or of not eating.
  • *
  • To be very hungry.
    • Hey, ma, I'm starving !
  • To destroy, make capitulate or at least make suffer by deprivation, notably of food.
  • To deprive of nourishment.
    • They starved the child until it withered away.
  • (transitive, British, especially Yorkshire and Lancashire) To kill with cold.
    • I was half starved waiting out in that wind.

    Derived terms

    * starvation * starveling * starving

    Anagrams

    * * * English ergative verbs

    affamish

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • (obsolete) To cause (somebody) to die of hunger; to starve.
  • * With light thereof I do myself sustain,
    And thereon feed my love affamisht heart.     -

    • Related terms

    * famish * famine