enfamish

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle English (verb forms) enfamecht, enfamyched, enfamyschist, enfamyscht, probably from Anglo-Norman; compare Old French afamer, enfaminer.

Verb[edit]

enfamish (third-person singular simple present enfamishes, present participle enfamishing, simple past and past participle enfamished)

  1. To famish; to starve.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for enfamish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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