different between famish vs affamish

English

Etymology

From Middle English famisshe, from famen (“starve”), from Old French afamer. Compare affamish, famine. Cognate with Spanish hambre (“hunger”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?fam??/

Verb

famish (third-person singular simple present famishes, present participle famishing, simple past and past participle famished)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To starve (to death); to kill or destroy with hunger.
2. (transitive) To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to cause to be very hungry.
3. (transitive) To kill, or to cause great suffering to, by depriving or denying anything necessary.
4. (transitive) To force, control, or constrain by famine.
   • 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

     He had […] famished Paris into a surrender.

5. (intransitive) To die of hunger; to starve to death.
6. (intransitive) To suffer extreme hunger or thirst, so as to be exhausted in strength, or to nearly perish.
7. (intransitive) To suffer extremity from deprivation of anything essential or necessary.

Derived terms

• famisher
• famishment

Translations

References

• famish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??fæm??/

Verb

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

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

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

Related terms

• famish
• famine