Ahungered

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Pinched with hunger; very hungry.

    "To this extenuated spectre, perhaps, a crumb is not thrown once a year; but when ahungered and athirst to famine—when all humanity has forgotten the dying tenant of a decaying house—Divine Mercy remembers the mourner, […]"

Example

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"To this extenuated spectre, perhaps, a crumb is not thrown once a year; but when ahungered and athirst to famine—when all humanity has forgotten the dying tenant of a decaying house—Divine Mercy remembers the mourner, […]"

Etymology

From Middle English a-hungred, a hungryd, equivalent to a- + hungered.

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