Hunger
['hʌŋgə] or ['hʌŋɡɚ]
Definition
(noun.) strong desire for something (not food or drink); 'a thirst for knowledge'; 'hunger for affection'.
(noun.) a physiological need for food; the consequence of food deprivation.
(verb.) feel the need to eat.
Editor: Lorna--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) An uneasy sensation occasioned normally by the want of food; a craving or desire for food.
(n.) Any strong eager desire.
(n.) To feel the craving or uneasiness occasioned by want of food; to be oppressed by hunger.
(n.) To have an eager desire; to long.
(v. t.) To make hungry; to famish.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Craving appetite (for food), craving for food.
v. n. [1]. Famish, feel hunger, feel hungry.[2]. Long, have an eager desire.
Editor: Nolan
Definition
n. desire for food: strong desire for anything.—v.i. to crave food: to long for.—adjs. Hung′er-bit′ten bitten pained or weakened by hunger; Hung′erful hungry; Hung′erly (Shak.) hungry.—adv. (Shak.) hungrily.—adv. Hung′rily.—adj. Hung′ry having eager desire: greedy: lean: poor.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you are hungry, is an unfortunate omen. You will not find comfort and satisfaction in your home, and to lovers it means an unhappy marriage.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
Ability to eat in a Night Lunch Cart.
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Examples
- Hunger and recent ill-usage are great assistants if you want to cry; and Oliver cried very naturally indeed. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- She began to envy those pirouetters, to hunger for the hope and happiness which the fascination of the dance seemed to engender within them. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- But as he followed Madame Olenska into the hall he thought with a sudden hunger of being for a moment alone with her at the door of her carriage. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Rats were hunted eagerly; cowhide was gnawed and sawdust devoured to stay the pangs of hunger. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- That ravenous second hunger of poverty--the hunger for money--roused them into tumult and activity in a moment. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Yo' may be kind hearts, each separate; but once banded together, yo've no more pity for a man than a wild hunger-maddened wolf. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Absolute exhaustion--possibly mere hunger and fatigue, said I, with my finger on the thready pulse, where the stream of life trickled thin and small. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The hungers and lusts of mankind have produced some stupendous follies, but the desires themselves are no less real and insistent. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The real life of the ordinary man is his everyday life, his little circle of affections, fears, hungers, lusts, and imaginative impulses. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There was a murmur of confidence and approval, and then the man who hungered, asked: Is this rustic to be sent back soon? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- She rose and undressed hastily, hungering now for the touch of her pillow. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
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