All 4 Uses of
famished
in
The Two Towers
- He was famished but not yet so famished as to eat flesh flung to him by an Orc, the flesh of he dared not guess what creature.†
Chpt 3.3 *
- He was famished but not yet so famished as to eat flesh flung to him by an Orc, the flesh of he dared not guess what creature.†
Chpt 3.3
- He looks fair famished.†
Chpt 4.2
- For a moment he might have paused to consider Gollum, a tiny figure sprawling on the ground: there perhaps lay the famished skeleton of some child of Men, its ragged garment still clinging to it, its long arms and legs almost bone-white and bone-thin: no flesh worth a peck.†
Chpt 4.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(famished) extremely hungry
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, famished can refer to a need for something other than food -- such as famished for news.