famish

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To cause to endure severe hunger.
2. v. To cause to starve to death.
3. v. To endure severe deprivation, especially of food.
4. v. To undergo starvation and die.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To deprive of nourishment; keep or cause to be insufficiently supplied with food or drink; starve; destroy, exhaust, or distress with hunger or thirst.
2. To suffer extreme hunger or thirst; be exhausted through want of food or drink; suffer extremity by deprivation of any necessary.

Wiktionary

1. v. obsolete, transitive To starve (to death); to kill or destroy with hunger.
2. v. transitive To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to distress with hunger.
3. v. transitive To kill, or to cause to suffer extremity, by deprivation or denial of anything necessary.
4. v. transitive To force or constrain by famine.
5. v. intransitive To die of hunger; to starve.
6. v. intransitive To suffer extreme hunger or thirst, so as to be exhausted in strength, or to come near to perish.
7. v. intransitive To suffer extremity from deprivation of anything essential or necessary.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To starve, kill, or destroy with hunger.
2. v. To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to distress with hanger.
3. v. To kill, or to cause to suffer extremity, by deprivation or denial of anything necessary.
4. v. To force or constrain by famine.
5. v. To die of hunger; to starve.
6. v. To suffer extreme hunger or thirst, so as to be exhausted in strength, or to come near to perish.
7. v. To suffer extremity from deprivation of anything essential or necessary.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. die of food deprivation
2. v. deprive of food
3. v. be hungry; go without food