famish
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
be hungry; go without food
Let's eat--I'm starving!
Types & categories
- suffer hypernym
Related & opposite
- be full antonym
- hunger derivation
- starvation derivation
Sense 2 verb
deprive of food
They starved the prisoners
Types & categories
- deprive hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 3 verb
die of food deprivation
The political prisoners starved to death
Types & categories
- die hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | be full |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | hunger |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | starvation |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | suffer |
| 2 | antonym | Related & opposite | feed |
| 2 | causes | Related & opposite | starve |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | starving |
| 2 | verb group | Related & opposite | starve |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | deprive |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | die |