famish

To starve (to death); to kill or destroy with hunger.

Even so did Corellius Rufus, another grave senator, by the relation of Plinius Secundus, Epist. lib.1, epist.12, famish himself to death […]

To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to cause to be very hungry.

And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread.

The pains of famished Tantalus [he] shall feel.

To kill, or to cause great suffering to, by depriving or denying anything necessary.

And famish him of breath, if not of bread?

To force, control, or constrain by famine.

He had […]famished Paris into a surrender.

To die of hunger; to starve to death.

Some ſay that Rauens foſter forlorne children, / The vvhilſt their ovvne birds famiſh in their neſts: / Oh be to me though thy hard hart ſay no, / Nothing ſo kinde but ſomething pittifull.