buy the farm vs famish

buy the farm and famish both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
buy the farm	No	No	Yes	No
famish	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, famish is a hyponym of buy the farm; that is, famish is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than buy the farm:

buy the farm: pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
famish: die of food deprivation

Other hyponyms of buy the farm include abort, asphyxiate, stifle, suffocate, buy it, pip out, drown, predecease, starve, fall, succumb, yield.

buy the farm (verb)	famish (verb)
pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life	be hungry; go without food
	die of food deprivation
	deprive of food