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famish
c.1400,
famen,
aphetic of O.Fr.
afamer,
from V.L.
*affamare
"to bring to hunger," from
ad famem,
from L.
fames
"hunger." Ending changed after 1338 to
-ish
under infl. of
ravish, anguish,
etc. The intrans. sense is from 1530.
