Starve
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To die, in general: To die because of lack of food or of not eating. To be very hungry. To destroy, make capitulate or at least make suffer by deprivation, notably of food To deprive of nourishment. To kill with cold.
Example sentence: Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know? And our own hogs, and our own cows and stuff, you know.
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.