famish

The “cryes and teares of the poore, who professe they are almost ready to famish”, wrote John Wildman in 1648, prompted fears that “a sudden confusion would follow.”

But the tendency to famish us displayed by our Rulers was not calculated to improve the morale of a civilian, or any, army.

Never varlets So triumph'd o'er an old fat man: I was famish'd.

Unless, like the King of Babylon, they were to eat grass in the fashion of beasts, it seemed they must soon famish.

But, in the interim, she must starve and famish like a white mouse learning to dance.'

Domitius therefore by preparing for his defence, and Marsus by seeming determined to famish, both protracted their lives.