首页英语词典famishfamish英英释意

famish

英['fæmɪʃ] 美['fæmɪʃ]
  • vi. 挨饿
  • vt. 使挨饿

英英释意


1. be hungry; go without food;
"Let's eat--I'm starving!"
2. deprive of food;
"They starved the prisoners"
3. die of food deprivation;
"The political prisoners starved to death"
"Many famished in the countryside during the drought"