The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Famish \Fam"ish\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Famished; p. pr. & vb.
   n. Famishing.] [OE. famen; cf. OF. afamer, L. fames. See
   Famine, and cf. Affamish.]
   1. To starve, kill, or destroy with hunger. --Shak.
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   2. To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to
      distress with hanger.
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            And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the
            people cried to Pharaoh for bread.    --Cen. xli.
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            The pains of famished Tantalus he'll feel. --Dryden.
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   3. To kill, or to cause to suffer extremity, by deprivation
      or denial of anything necessary.
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            And famish him of breath, if not of bread. --Milton.
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   4. To force or constrain by famine.
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            He had famished Paris into a surrender. --Burke.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

famished
    adj 1: extremely hungry; "they were tired and famished for food
           and sleep"; "a ravenous boy"; "the family was starved and
           ragged"; "fell into the esurient embrance of a predatory
           enemy" [syn: famished, ravenous, sharp-set,
           starved, esurient]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

39 Moby Thesaurus words for "famished":
   bare-handed, beggarly, craving, dog-hungry, empty, empty-handed,
   famishing, fasting, half-famished, half-starved, hungering, hungry,
   ill off, ill-equipped, ill-furnished, ill-provided, impoverished,
   on short commons, pauperized, peckish, pinched with hunger, poor,
   ravening, ravenous, sharp-set, shorthanded, starved, starveling,
   starving, underfed, undermanned, undernourished, unfed, unfilled,
   unprovided, unreplenished, unsupplied, voracious, wolfish