Definition of "famishing" [famishing]

• Present participle of famish. (verb)

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• "All the charitable institutions have exhausted their means in trying to raise supplies of food for the famishing residents of the garrets and cellars of London lanes and alleys."
• "This I had played for, and when they were well and hungry, I summoned the whole village, made a great harangue, posed as patriarch, and fed the famishing."
• "I summoned the whole village, made a great harangue, posed as patriarch, and fed the famishing."