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Hunger   /hˈəŋgər/   Listen
Hunger

noun
1.
A physiological need for food; the consequence of food deprivation.  Synonym: hungriness.
2.
Strong desire for something (not food or drink).  Synonyms: hungriness, thirst, thirstiness.  "Hunger for affection"
verb
(past & past part. hungered; pres. part. hungering)
1.
Feel the need to eat.
2.
Have a craving, appetite, or great desire for.  Synonyms: crave, lust, starve, thirst.
3.
Be hungry; go without food.  Synonyms: famish, starve.  Antonym: be full.



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"Hunger" Quotes from Famous Books



... evening was mainly taken up with the case of the Irish hunger-strikers. Mr. BONAR LAW was at first very stiff in his attitude, pointing out quite reasonably that if the Government found it necessary to intern people suspected of crime it was absurd to let them out again ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, April 21, 1920 • Various

... have worked round to an opposite conclusion: the wealth which was thought to make a man independent rather puts him in need of further protection. How in the world, then, can want be driven away by riches? Cannot the rich feel hunger? Cannot they thirst? Are not the limbs of the wealthy sensitive to the winter's cold? "But," thou wilt say, "the rich have the wherewithal to sate their hunger, the means to get rid of thirst and cold." ...
— The Consolation of Philosophy • Boethius

... centuries. It may be objected that the present English population is not indigenous to the island; but they are the survival of the fittest and toughest selected from many aspirants. Nor can it be doubted that the British hunger for empire in all parts of the world is due to nothing so much as to their anxiety to have a plausible pretext for ...
— Hawthorne and His Circle • Julian Hawthorne

... WESTERN SIBERIA. A Stirring narrative of seven years' explorations in Siberia, Mongolia, the Kirghes Steppes, Chinese Tartary, and part of Central Asia, revealing extraordinary facts, showing much of hunger, thirst, and perilous adventure, and forming a work of rare attractiveness for every reader. By THOMAS WILLIAM ATKINSON. With numerous ...
— Cattle and Their Diseases • Robert Jennings

... failures, of the police, of the detectives, of the patriots. His complaints were pitiful and depressing. He had been arrested and had lost his job. It was easy to see that he had suffered. The gleam of hunger trembled in ...
— The Created Legend • Feodor Sologub


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