Usually means: Extremely hungry, in need of food.
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  1. famished: Merriam-Webster.com
  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: Free Dictionary
  17. famished: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. famished: Dictionary/thesaurus
  19. famished: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. famished: Urban Dictionary

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adjective:  Extremely hungry.

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