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famishment

NOUN

hunger

Synonyms

STRONGEST

craving desire famine greed longing lust starvation yearning

STRONG

ache appetence appetency emptiness esurience gluttony greediness hungriness mania ravenousness vacancy void voracity want yen

WEAK

a stomach for appetition big eyes bottomless pit eyes for munchies sweet tooth

Antonyms

STRONGEST

disgust dislike distaste hate hatred

STRONG

fill fullness

WEAK

satiation satisfaction

Example Sentences

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We’ve got a fair chance o’ goin’ un’er yet, eyther from thirst or the famishment o’ empty stomaks.

From The Lone Ranche by Reid, Mayne

A miserable death is famishment; But what care I?

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by Hazlitt, William Carew

Go on, Sir William Blunt: Pass briefly to the lady's famishment.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by Hazlitt, William Carew

And there shall be earthquakes, in all quarters, and famishment, and troubles.

From The first New Testament printed in English by

Whether famishment gleamed in my eye, I knew not.

From Autobiography of a Yogi by Yogananda, Paramahansa