transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈfa-mish ]
verb
Etymology: Middle English, probably alteration of famen, from Anglo-French afamer, from Vulgar Latin * affamare, from Latin ad- + fames
Date: 15th century
transitive verb
1. : to cause to suffer severely from hunger
2. archaic : to cause to starve to death
intransitive verb
1. archaic : starve
2. : to suffer for lack of something necessary
a moment when French poetry in particular was famish ing for such invention — T. S. Eliot
• fam·ish·ment -mənt noun