famish

The President pondered, smiled, said: "Well, they can't famish on that."

From Time Magazine Archive

Such is their filial piety, that they will often give the half of these pitiful wages to their parents, to relieve their necessities, preferring almost to famish themselves rather than see them want.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert

Switzerland could not afford to be a Kingdom,—the expense of a Court and Royal Family would famish half her people.

From Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. by Greeley, Horace

The last sounds which rang in my ears were the voices of the hungry gnomes, calling out, "Give us our victim; we famish."

From Tales of the Wonder Club Volume I by Halidom, M. Y.

It requires nothing more of the Regicides than to famish some sort of excuse, some sort of colorable pretest, for our renewing the supplications of innocence at the feet of guilt.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund