See Also: Hunger(medicine)
hunger(2)(dictionary)
hunger(1)(dictionary)
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hunger contractions(medicine)
hunger pain(medicine)
narcotic hunger(medicine)
affect hunger(medicine)
yerd-hunger(dictionary)
hunger 1, noun(dictionary)

hunger(2) (iou)



hunger verb.
[Old English hyngran, hyngrian (= Old Saxon gihungrian, Gothic huggrjan), from Germanic base of HUNGER noun; assim. in Middle English to the noun.]
verb intrans. impers. as in me hungreth, it hungers me, I am hungry. OE-LME.
verb intrans. Feel or suffer hunger through lack of food, be hungry. arch. OE.
verb trans. Have a hunger or craving for; desire with longing. OE-M16.
verb intrans. gen. Have a strong desire or craving for, to do; hanker after. LME.
E. Waugh Basil is a Philistine and a crook..and yet..I hunger for his company. B. Malamud He hungered to explain who he was.
verb trans. Subject to hunger, starve; drive out by hunger, starve out. Now rare. L16.
hungerer noun LME.