Difference between Famish and Hunger

What is the difference between Famish and Hunger?

Famish as a verb is to starve, kill, or destroy with hunger. while Hunger as a verb is to be in need of food.

Famish

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To starve, kill, or destroy with hunger. To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to distress with hunger. To kill, or to cause to suffer extremity, by deprivation or denial of anything necessary. To force or constrain by famine. To die of hunger; to starve. To suffer extreme hunger or thirst, so as to be exhausted in strength, or to come near to perish. To suffer extremity from deprivation of anything essential or necessary.

Hunger

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A need or compelling desire of food.Any strong desire.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To be in need of food.To have a desire for.

Example sentence: My objective is to fulfil the dream of Bangabandhu through building a hunger- and poverty-free Golden Bangladesh being imbued with the spirit of the War of Liberation.

We hope you now know whether to use Famish or Hunger in your sentence.

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