• Affamish

    Origin

    From French affamer, from Latin ad + fames ("hunger"). Compare famish.

    Full definition of affamish

    Verb

    1. (obsolete) To cause (somebody) to die of hunger; to starve.
      • With light thereof I do myself sustain,
        And thereon feed my love affamisht heart.
        - Edmund Spenser

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