famish

Short definition from Wiktionary

Verb

1. 1
   To starve (to death); to kill or destroy with hunger.
2. 2
   To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to cause to be very hungry.
3. 3
   To kill, or to cause great suffering to, by depriving or denying anything necessary.
4. 4
   To force, control, or constrain by famine.
5. 5
   To die of hunger; to starve to death.
6. 6
   To suffer extreme hunger or thirst, so as to be exhausted in strength, or to nearly perish.
7. 7
   To suffer extremity from deprivation of anything essential or necessary.