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hunger
[ huhng-ger ]
noun
- a compelling need or desire for food.
- the painful sensation or state of weakness caused by the need of food:
to collapse from hunger.
- a shortage of food; famine.
- a strong or compelling desire or craving:
hunger for power.
Synonyms: , , ,
verb (used without object)
- to feel hunger; be hungry.
- to have a strong desire.
verb (used with object)
- Rare. to subject to hunger; starve.
hunger
/ ˈʌŋɡə /
noun
- a feeling of pain, emptiness, or weakness induced by lack of food
- an appetite, desire, need, or craving
hunger for a woman
verb
- to have or cause to have a need or craving for food
- intr; usually foll by for or after to have a great appetite or desire (for)
Other 51Թ Forms
- ܲ··Բ· adverb
- -ܲ· adjective
- ·ܲ· noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of hunger1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of hunger1
Idioms and Phrases
- from hunger, Slang. deplorably bad; dreadful: Also strictly from hunger.
The styles in coats this winter are from hunger.
Example Sentences
One of the biggest such schemes in the world, it was introduced to combat hunger and boost school attendance.
A hunger strike is a battle the striker wages against their own body.
This bred competition and hunger, because I knew the other guys were trying to do exactly the same thing.
He dealt with his internment without trial in the 1970s and the 1981 Republican hunger strikes, by which time he was Sinn Féin vice president.
A deliberate and systematic Israeli effort — with Western acceptance — to make hunger a form of control.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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