famish

verb7

1. •
   To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to cause to be very hungry.

   • And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. — 1611
2. •
   To suffer extreme hunger or thirst, so as to be exhausted in strength, or to nearly perish.

   • You are all resolved rather to die than to famish? — 1608
3. •
   To kill, or to cause great suffering to, by depriving or denying anything necessary.

   • And famish him of breath, if not of bread? — 1667
4. •
   To suffer extremity from deprivation of anything essential or necessary.

   • The Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish. — 1611
5. •
   To die of hunger; to starve to death.

   • Some say that Rauens foster forlorne children, / The vvhilst their ovvne birds famish in their nests: / Oh be to me though thy hard hart say no, / Nothing so kinde but something pittifull. — 1588
6. •
   To force, control, or constrain by famine.

   • He had […]famished Paris into a surrender. — 1790
7. •
   (no longer used) To starve (to death); to kill or destroy with hunger.

   • Even so did Corellius Rufus, another grave senator, by the relation of Plinius Secundus, Epist. lib.1, epist.12, famish himself to death […] — 1624