Thirst
[θɜːst] or [θɝst]
Definition
(noun.) a physiological need to drink.
(verb.) feel the need to drink.
Checked by Bryant--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A sensation of dryness in the throat associated with a craving for liquids, produced by deprivation of drink, or by some other cause (as fear, excitement, etc.) which arrests the secretion of the pharyngeal mucous membrane; hence, the condition producing this sensation.
(n.) Fig.: A want and eager desire after anything; a craving or longing; -- usually with for, of, or after; as, the thirst for gold.
(n.) To feel thirst; to experience a painful or uneasy sensation of the throat or fauces, as for want of drink.
(n.) To have a vehement desire.
(v. t.) To have a thirst for.
Checker: Scott
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Desire for drink.[2]. Desire, longing, craving.
v. n. [1]. Desire to drink.[2]. Desire, long, crave, hanker.
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Definition
n. the uneasiness caused by want of drink: vehement desire for drink: eager desire for anything.—v.i. to feel thirst: to desire vehemently.—n. Thirst′er.—adv. Thirst′ily.—n. Thirst′iness.—adj. Thirst′y suffering from thirst: dry: parched: vehemently desiring.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of being thirsty, shows that you are aspiring to things beyond your present reach; but if your thirst is quenched with pleasing drinks, you will obtain your wishes. To see others thirsty and drinking to slake it, you will enjoy many favors at the hands of wealthy people.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
A sensation immediately following a short session at the free lunch stand.
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Examples
- Having worked at Jarndyce and Jarndyce like a galley slave, I have slaked my thirst for the law and satisfied myself that I shouldn't like it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Now, with a start of inner wonder, Lily felt that her thirst for retaliation had died out. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Yes, answered Gutenberg, it is in effect a wine-press, but it shall shortly spout forth floods of the most abundant and marvelous liquor that has ever flowed to quench the thirst of man. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The obvious novelties of machinery and locomotion, phonographs and yellow journalism slake the American thirst for creation pretty thoroughly. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- We seem to be in a pretty fix here with a splendid chance of dying of starvation and thirst. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- But his thirst for education was intense. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- An old gray-headed man tottered forward to slake his burning thirst. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- A life-thirsting, cannibal-looking, bloody-minded juryman, the Jacques Three of St. Antoine. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- It was a fine struggle that; for he was a tall, strong man, fighting for his life; and I, a powerful madman, thirsting to destroy him. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Even if I were the most restless of mankind, I said, I should be in no danger of thirsting after adventures for some time to come. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- But her soul thirsted to see him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The little doctor thirsted for his life. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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