pass away vs famish

pass away and famish both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
pass away	No	No	Yes	No
famish	No	No	Yes	No

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

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

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

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