exit vs famish

exit is a noun but famish is not a noun.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
exit	Yes	No	Yes	No
famish	No	No	Yes	No

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

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

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

exit (noun)	famish (noun)
the act of going out
an opening that permits escape or release
euphemistic expressions for death

exit (verb)	famish (verb)
pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life	be hungry; go without food
lose the lead	die of food deprivation
move out of or depart from	deprive of food