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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
famish/ˈfamɪʃ/

▶verb archaic suffer from extreme hunger.

– origin ME: from obs. fame ‘starve, famish’, from OFr. afamer, based on L. fames ‘hunger’.

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