English-Finnish translations for famish

To starve ; to kill or destroy with hunger
To exhaust#Verb|exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to distress#Verb|distress with hunger
To kill, or to cause to suffer extremity, by deprivation or denial of anything necessary
To force or constrain by famine
To die of hunger; to starve
To suffer extreme hunger or thirst, so as to be exhausted in strength, or to come near to perish
To suffer extremity from deprivation of anything essential or necessary

And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. -- Genesis 41:55
The pains of famished Tantalus hell feel. --Dryden
And famish him of breath, if not of bread. -- Milton
He had famished Paris into a surrender. -- Burke
You are all resolved rather to die than to famish? -- Shakespeare
The Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish. -- Proverbs 10:3

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