affamish

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/əˈfæmɪʃ/

verb

To cause (somebody) to die of hunger; to starve.

OriginFrench affamer ← Latin ad →
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Meanings

verbaffamish (third-person singular simple present affamishes, present participle affamishing, simple past and past participle affamished)

present singular third person affamishes · participle present affamishing · participle past affamished · past affamished

  1. obsoleteTo cause (somebody) to die of hunger; to starve.

    With light thereof I do myself sustain, / And thereon feed my love affamisht heart.

    1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet LXXXVII”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC

Origin

  1. Latinad
  2. Frenchaffamer
  3. Englishaffamish

From French affamer, from Latin ad + fames (“hunger”). Compare famish.

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APA

affamish. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/affamish

MLA

“affamish.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/affamish. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “affamish,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/affamish.

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