famished

• The rrwr's motive was plain: it was famished, and it had suddenly been confronted by unlimited prey. —  Triple Detente by Piers Anthony
• Then he takes the pink nipple as if he has never been so famished, and he sucks with urgency. —  FSF - March2006
• The morning's exercise had put paid to the evening's excesses--I was famished, and hoped that our gathering together marked an impending meal. —  The Game--Laurie King--Mary Russell 07
• And footsore, famished, and exhausted, we made it back to New Fort a good forty minutes before dawn, to find our drugged chuprassistill snoring gently in his corner. —  The Game--Laurie King--Mary Russell 07
• I was tired and famished, and the place was so restful that I said yes at once. —  The Making of an American

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

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