Usually means: Extremely hungry, in need of food.
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  1. famished: Merriam-Webster
  2. famished: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. famished: Collins English Dictionary
  4. famished: Vocabulary.com
  5. Famished, famished: Wordnik
  6. famished: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. famished: Wiktionary
  8. famished: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. famished: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Famished, famished: Dictionary.com
  11. famished: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Famished: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. famished: Rhymezone
  14. famished: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. famished: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. famished: FreeDictionary.org
  17. famished: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. famished: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. famished: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  20. famished: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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▸ adjective:  Extremely hungry.

Similar:
hungry, ravenous, starved, esurient, sharp-set, superhungry, overhungry, hungerful, hungry as a hog, ahungered, more...

Opposite:
satiated, full, satisfied, nourished, content

Types:
ravenous, starving, hungry, peckish, more...

Phrases:
The Famished Road, opposite of famished, more...

Adjectives:
nigh, fair, long, little, much, hungry

Colors:
    burnt sienna,     charcoal,     olive green,     mustard yellow,     rust, more...



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Similar:
hungry, ravenous, starved, esurient, sharp-set, superhungry, overhungry, hungerful, hungry as a hog, ahungered, more...

Opposite:
satiated, full, satisfied, nourished, content

Types:
ravenous, starving, hungry, peckish, more...

Phrases:
The Famished Road, opposite of famished, more...

Adjectives:
nigh, fair, long, little, much, hungry

Colors:
    burnt sienna,     charcoal,     olive green,     mustard yellow,     rust, more...



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