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Webster 1913 Edition


Famishment

Fam′ish-ment

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Noun.
State of being famished.

Webster 1828 Edition


Famishment

FAM'ISHMENT

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Noun.
The pain of extreme hunger or thirst; extreme want of sustenance.

Definition 2024


famishment

famishment

English

Noun

famishment (plural famishments)

  1. Starvation; the fact or process of being famished.
  2. (obsolete) Famine.
    • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Mark XIII:
      And there shalbe erthquakes, in all quarters, and famysshment, and troubles.