Hyphenation of famish

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word famish? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

fam-ish

Definitions of famish:

1.	Be hungry Go without food Let's eat--I'm starving!
2.	Deprive of food They starved the prisoners
3.	Die of food deprivation The political prisoners starved to death Many famished in the countryside during the drought

Synonyms of famish:

verb	starve, hunger, suffer, hurt
verb	starve, deprive
verb	starve, die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.