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English
Etymology
Inflected forms.
Pronunciation
Verb
famished
- simple past and past participle of famish
Adjective
famished (comparative more famished, superlative most famished)
- Extremely hungry.
- Synonyms: starving, ravenous
I'm famished; I haven't eaten since yesterday.
Synonyms
See Thesaurus:hungry
Derived terms
Translations
extremely hungry
- Arabic: ضَارِم m (ḍārim), مُعَصَّب m (muʕaṣṣab), خَميص m
- Asturian: esfamiáu m or m pl, famientu m or m pl
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 惄 (zh) (nì)
- Danish: udhungret (da)
- Dutch: uitgehongerd (nl)
- Faroese: svøltur
- French: affamé (fr)
- Galician: esfameado, famélico, famelgo
- German: verhungert (de), ausgehungert (de)
- Greek: νηστικός (el) (nistikós), πειναλέος (el) m (peinaléos)
- Ancient: πρόσπεινος (próspeinos)
- Latin: famēlicus
- Maori: pakaroa, matekai
- Norman: famélique
- Nǀuu: quaqî
- Polish: wygłodzony, zgłodniały
- Portuguese: faminto (pt), esfomeado (pt)
- Romanian: înfometat (ro), hămesit (ro)
- Russian: голо́дный (ru) (golódnyj), изголода́вшийся (ru) (izgolodávšijsja), голода́ющий (ru) (golodájuščij)
- Spanish: hambreado (es) (Latin America)
- Swedish: utsvulten (sv)
- Tagalog: dayukdok
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