Why this word is great
AFFAMISH — [Verb] To cause (somebody) to die of hunger; to starve. From French affamer ("to starve"), from Latin ad ("to") + fames ("hunger"), its edges sharpened by the older English famish. Unlike "famish" (which suggests the gnawing ache of hunger) or "starve" (which can mean mere deprivation), "affamish" is the slow, deliberate work of starvation—a word that tastes of dust and absence. It is the gaunt faces of prisoners behind iron bars, the hollow-eyed child clutching an empty bowl, the silent fields where no grain grows—the cruel arithmetic of hunger, measured in bones and breath until there is neither.