expire vs famish

expire and famish both are verbs.

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

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

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

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

expire (verb)	famish (verb)
expel air	be hungry; go without food
pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life	die of food deprivation
lose validity	deprive of food