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Two Old Women
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- Worse yet, in their famished state, they might do something even more terrible.†
p. 8.5 *
- The large band of famished people slowly moved away, leaving the two women sitting in the same stunned position on their piled spruce boughs.†
p. 12.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(famished) extremely hungry
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(2)
(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.