Word Meanings - AFFAMISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To afflict with, or perish from, hunger. Spenser.

Related words: (words related to AFFAMISH)

• AFFLICTIVELY
  In an afflictive manner.
• PERISHMENT
  The act of perishing. Udall.
• AFFLICTIVE
  Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing. "Jove's afflictive hand." Pope. Spreads slow disease, and darts afflictive pain. Prior.
• PERISHABILITY
  Perishableness.
• AFFLICTING
  Grievously painful; distressing; afflictive; as, an afflicting event. -- Af*flict"ing*ly, adv.
• AFFLICTION
  1. The cause of continued pain of body or mind, as sickness, losses, etc.; an instance of grievous distress; a pain or grief. To repay that money will be a biting affliction. Shak. 2. The state of being afflicted; a state of pain, distress, or
• HUNGERER
  One who hungers; one who longs. Lamb.
• AFFLICTIONLESS
  Free from affliction.
• HUNGER
  & OHG. hungar, G. hunger, Icel. hungr, Sw. & Dan. hunger, Goth. h 1. An uneasy sensation occasioned normally by the want of food; a craving or desire for food. Note: The sensation of hunger is usually referred to the stomach, but is probably
• AFFLICTEDNESS
  The state of being afflicted; affliction. Bp. Hall.
• AFFLICTER
  One who afflicts.
• HUNGER-BIT; HUNGER-BITTEN
  Pinched or weakened by hunger. Milton.
• AFFLICT
  Afflicted. Becon.
• HUNGERED
  Hungry; pinched for food. Milton.
• PERISHABLE
  Liable to perish; subject to decay, destruction, or death; as, perishable goods; our perishable bodies.
• HUNGERLY
  Wanting food; starved. Shak.
• PERISHABLENESS
  The quality or state of being perishable; liability to decay or destruction. Locke.
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• HUNGER-STARVE
  To starve with hunger; to famish. Shak.
• PERISHABLY
  In a perishable degree or manner.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• EMPERISHED
  Perished; decayed. I deem thy brain emperished be. Spenser.
• VIPERISH
  Somewhat like a viper; viperous.
• ANHUNGERED
  Ahungered; longing.
• COPPERISH
  Containing, or partaking of the nature of, copper; like copper; as, a copperish taste.
• IMPERISHABILITY
  The quality of being imperishable: indstructibility. "The imperishability of the universe." Milman.
• UNPERISHABLE
  Imperishable.