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FAMISHMENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does famishment mean?
• FAMISHMENT (noun)
The noun FAMISHMENT has 1 sense:
1. a state of extreme hunger resulting from lack of essential nutrients over a prolonged period
Familiarity information: FAMISHMENT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A state of extreme hunger resulting from lack of essential nutrients over a prolonged period
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
famishment; starvation
Hypernyms ("famishment" is a kind of...):
hunger; hungriness (a physiological need for food; the consequence of food deprivation)
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