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noun

Hunger n.

An uneasy sensation occasioned normally by the want of food; a craving or desire for food. Note: The sensation of hunger is usually referred to the stomach, but is probably dependent on excitation of the sensory nerves, both of the stomach and intestines, and perhaps also on indirect impressions from other organs, more or less exhausted from lack of nutriment.

Any strong eager desire. "O sacred hunger of ambitious minds!" "For hunger of my gold I die."

verb

Hunger v. t. To make hungry; to famish.

Hunger v. i. (past & past part. hungered; pres. part. hungering)

To feel the craving or uneasiness occasioned by want of food; to be oppressed by hunger.

To have an eager desire; to long. "Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteouness."

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Etymology of 'Hunger'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... breakfast—a light, vegetable dinner, with a bottle or two of Seltzer water, tinged with vin de Grave, and in the evening, a cup of green tea, without milk or sugar, formed the whole of his sustenance. The pangs of hunger he appeased by privately ...

— Life of Lord Byron, Vol. III - With His Letters and Journals • Thomas Moore

... daughters of the owners of railways and coal mines and rubber plantations were 'fed up' with motoring or bridge, or even with the hunting and fishing which meant a frank resumption of palaeolithic life without the spur of palaeolithic hunger. But my own work brought me into contact with an unprivileged class, whose degree of freedom was the special product of modern industrial civilisation, and on whose use of their freedom the future of civilisation may depend. A clever young mechanic, ...

— Human Nature In Politics - Third Edition • Graham Wallas

... is not deceived, disappointed. Whom chosen thou unto thee takest; And whom into thy court received, Thou of thy checkrole[65] number makest: The dainty viands of thy sacred store Shall feed him so he shall not hunger more. ...

— England's Antiphon • George MacDonald

... for the supper before I stick a fork into it," rejoined Maurice impatiently, "but in Heaven's name hurry up, man! I am half dead with sleep as well as with hunger." ...

— The Bronze Eagle - A Story of the Hundred Days • Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy

... on earth, quiescence profound; On the waters a vast Content, as of hunger appeased and stayed; In the heavens a silence that seems not mere privation of sound, But a thing with form and body, a thing to be touched and weighed! Yet I know that I dwell in the midst of the roar of the cosmic wheel, In the hot collision of Forces, and clangor of boundless Strife, Mid ...

— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 3 (of 4) • Various

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