Hunger

//ˈhʌŋɡə// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A need or compelling desire for food. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    strong desire for something (not food or drink) wordnet
  3. 3
    Any strong desire or need. broadly, countable, uncountable

    "I have a hunger to win."

  4. 4
    a physiological need for food; the consequence of food deprivation wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To be in need of food. intransitive

    "Therefore if thine enemie hunger, feed him: if he thirst, giue him drink. For in so doing thou shalt heape coales of fire on his head."

  2. 2
    be hungry; go without food wordnet
  3. 3
    To have a desire (for); to long; to yearn. figuratively, intransitive, usually

    "I hungered for your love."

  4. 4
    have a craving, appetite, or great desire for wordnet
  5. 5
    To make hungry; to famish. archaic, transitive
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  1. 6
    feel the need to eat wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English hunger, from Old English hungor (“hunger, desire; famine”), from Proto-West Germanic *hungr, from Proto-Germanic *hungruz, *hunhruz (“hunger”), from Proto-Indo-European *kenk- (“to burn, smart, desire, hunger, thirst”). Cognate with West Frisian honger, hûnger (“hunger”), Dutch honger (“hunger”), German Low German Hunger (“hunger”), German Hunger (“hunger”), Swedish hunger (“hunger”), Icelandic hungur (“hunger”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English hungren, from Old English hyngran, hyngrian, ġehyngrian (“to be hungry”), from Proto-West Germanic *hungrijan, from Proto-Germanic *hungrijaną.

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