What is the meaning of famish?

Be hungry; go without food.
- usage: "Let's eat-I'm starving"
- synonyms: starve, hunger
Deprive of food.
- usage: "They starved the prisoners"
- synonyms: starve
Die of food deprivation.
- usage: "The political prisoners starved to death"; "Many famished in the countryside during the drought"
- synonyms: starve

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