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Definition of hunger in English: hungernoun ˈhʌŋɡəˈhəŋɡər mass noun1A feeling of discomfort or weakness caused by lack of food, coupled with the desire to eat. she was faint with hunger Example sentencesExamples - Hearty and filling, I came away from this part of the meal with my meat cravings satisfied, and my hunger stopped dead in its tracks.
- So here we were, feeling faint with hunger, stomachs rumbling and no grub ready - and getting stiffer by the minute after our trek.
- The hunger and cravings are now non-existent, though I do begin to go a bit crazy.
- In these cases, a patient usually does not feel pain, hunger, or thirst.
- He was in constant agony, a pain brought on by hunger and lack of energy.
- Mothers quickly learn to distinguish a cry of hunger from one of discomfort or frustration and respond appropriately.
- If I had meat and vegetables and nothing else, it was easier to control, but if I had potatoes and desert, the hunger got stronger.
- It alters the circuitry in the brain that regulates hunger and cravings for alcohol and nicotine.
- Patients with dementia go walking for many reasons, including discomfort, hunger or pain.
- Food stimulation also resulted in increases in self-reports of hunger and desire for food.
- Common symptoms of this are weakness, shaking, hunger and sweating.
- They used questionnaires to assess hunger and the desire for different food types.
- John was almost faint from hunger, his feet throbbed and his legs burned, and he was exhausted.
- It all helped to keep energy levels up, and made everyone forget the pangs of hunger and thirst, for well over three hours.
- Early signs and symptoms include sweating, shakiness, weakness, hunger, dizziness and nausea.
- His head was throbbing and he was faint from hunger.
- Unlike hunger or temptation, cravings are typically a draw toward specific foods that are, in excess, bad for you.
- I was constantly confronted with my own weaknesses, my hunger, my low tolerance for pain.
- Jane awakens again later in the afternoon, faint with hunger and still numb from emotion.
- Such foods seem naturally to control hunger and appetite.
Synonyms lack of food, need for food, hungriness, ravenousness, emptiness starvation, famine, malnutrition, malnourishment, undernourishment rare famishment, inanition - 1.1 A severe lack of food.
they died from cold and hunger Example sentencesExamples - It is feared around 10,000 of them could perish from hunger, cold and disease in the next two weeks unless help arrives.
- As it is, way too many people are dying of hunger, dying of poverty, dying of disease, dying of bombs - all of which are preventable.
- Death, from hunger, cold, and reduced resistance to illnesses, none of which could be treated, was commonplace in Leningrad.
- Agricultural officials in West Africa say that if the current locust swarms worsen, up to one million people could face hunger.
- We have enough resources in the country to look after our people in times of hunger and in times when they have plenty.
- Many thousands, possibly millions would die of cold and hunger.
- Nearly half of this country's children are suffering from such severe hunger that their physical and mental development is being seriously retarded.
- More than 3,000 Mongolian gazelles have died of hunger and cold weather since blizzards hit the region this winter.
- In three weeks, 60,000 men were lost through cold, hunger and relentless attacks.
- Up to 3 million people are suffering from severe hunger while another 3 million have not got enough to eat.
- These camps face severe problems of hunger, disease as well as security.
- In 1984, there were reports of surplus in the south while one million people died of hunger in the northeastern regions of the country.
- One result of this was occasional and localized food shortages so severe as to occasion hunger, starvation, and death.
- Otherwise, we're going to lose lots and lots of people dying of hunger.
- Each day 50,000 people die of hunger and preventable illnesses.
- Combined with the spectres of disease and hunger, the cold is expected to claim the lives of many who survived the initial earthquake.
- He announced yesterday that almost 100 tonnes of food would have to be sourced to avert the threat of hunger in the affected areas.
- What is required in the immediate is to save the lives of as many people as possible from hunger, thirst and epidemics.
- Often they marched with bare feet, their stomachs aching with hunger.
- If orphaned cubs don't die of cold or hunger, they may be sold as pets or circus animals by hunters or poachers.
- 1.2 A strong desire or craving.
Example sentencesExamples - It was a grudge match, one neither could bear to lose, but gathering up the enthusiasm and hunger for the final shouldn't be a problem.
- And you get this hunger for his company, even his friendship, entirely through the voice and the language.
- I once went to a car boot sale and marvelled at the greed and hunger of the bargain hunters, me included.
- Lending libraries are a boon for those who have a hunger for reading.
- Have sensible people never felt the insatiable hunger of infatuation?
- It might not be ground-breaking but it sure sates the appetite that their hunger for great tunes has precipitated.
- I'm very confident, the desire and hunger in the team is stronger than ever.
- Throughout my life I've had a mad hunger for finding out things - for knowing things.
- It's infused with desire and loss, impossible tenderness, insatiable hunger.
- The unsatisfied hunger is an ache for things spiritual.
- The President fully understands people's hunger and thirst for justice.
- His point was that the kids from the under-advantaged neighborhoods have a stronger hunger.
- The hunger is still there and the panel is very strong.
- There was only one: the desire for vengeance, a hunger so strong that it had consumed his entire personality.
- I personally think that hunger for change for change's sake is pretty infantile.
- The hunger for food yes, but also the hunger to tell Chris what was in his heart.
- He still possesses the same hunger and childlike love of the game that has defined him throughout his illustrious career.
- However, I feel the need for a change and a hunger for new influences.
- For the shopaholic, there's an endless search for objects to satisfy a sense of inner longing or hunger.
Synonyms desire, craving, longing, yearning, pining, hankering, thirst, appetite, lust, ache, want, need informal itch, yen rare appetence, appetency
verb ˈhʌŋɡəˈhəŋɡər [no object]1hunger after/forHave a strong desire or craving for. he hungered for a sense of self-worth Example sentencesExamples - But humanity hungers for a sense of right and wrong, for some absolute moral values.
- It hungers for change and progress, and some comics who are clearly on their way up can be hampered slightly if their show treads a little water this year.
- Because, somehow, somewhere along the way, I stopped hungering for it.
- Aye, he was a kind and strong leader, but he hungered after adventure and ran after it with haste.
- Conspiracy is unnecessary when ideology hungers for power and its many adherents swarm of their own accord to the same pot of honey.
- The game that the comrades disapproved of because of its un-Soviet focus on the individual is ideal for an emerging nation, which hungers for new sports and new stars.
- There are moments when it seems that a whole society, or the majority of a society is actually hungering for war.
- The 18-year-old clearly loves playing up to the audience, as a performer she consistently hungers for attention.
- He disbanded the group in 1982, hungering after a new direction and tired of the relentless pressure of his frontman role.
- Maybe it's just that I don't hunger for films the way I do for books.
- Participation is what we were denied, and what we hungered for.
- Republicans tend to assume that everyone hungers for more investment accounts to handle.
- Maybe it is a symptom that we are hungering for something different.
- It's ironic that this apotheosis of flash over substance comes at a time when the public is hungering for greater perspective and deeper understanding.
- I've mentioned this before, but I am still hungering for an explanation.
- Sure, I wander around checking out the talent, but there really is no one special I'm hungering for.
- He hungers for a goodness that continually eludes him.
- I looked over at Ethan, his eyes on me, a sudden flash of desire in his eyes, I knew he still hungered for me as my lips curled into a smile.
- The consumer society hungers for the deviant and unexpected.
- It's not a spiritual experience anymore and that's what people hunger for.
Synonyms desire, crave, have a craving for long for, yearn for, have a yearning for, pine for, ache for, thirst for, have an appetite for, hanker after, lust after, want, need informal have a yen for, itch for, be dying for, be gagging for archaic be athirst for, be desirous of 2archaic Feel or suffer hunger. when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he afterwards hungered Example sentencesExamples - By analogy, a mother does not love her child because it hungers and cries, even though its crying makes new demands upon her love.
- Tell it to all those who hungered and thirsted and prayed and begged for help.
- How many hungered, sickened or died as a result?
Origin Old English hungor (noun), hyngran (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch honger and German Hunger. Definition of hunger in US English: hungernounˈhəŋɡərˈhəNGɡər 1A feeling of discomfort or weakness caused by lack of food, coupled with the desire to eat. she was faint with hunger Example sentencesExamples - John was almost faint from hunger, his feet throbbed and his legs burned, and he was exhausted.
- Food stimulation also resulted in increases in self-reports of hunger and desire for food.
- I was constantly confronted with my own weaknesses, my hunger, my low tolerance for pain.
- Patients with dementia go walking for many reasons, including discomfort, hunger or pain.
- Early signs and symptoms include sweating, shakiness, weakness, hunger, dizziness and nausea.
- If I had meat and vegetables and nothing else, it was easier to control, but if I had potatoes and desert, the hunger got stronger.
- So here we were, feeling faint with hunger, stomachs rumbling and no grub ready - and getting stiffer by the minute after our trek.
- Jane awakens again later in the afternoon, faint with hunger and still numb from emotion.
- Mothers quickly learn to distinguish a cry of hunger from one of discomfort or frustration and respond appropriately.
- It all helped to keep energy levels up, and made everyone forget the pangs of hunger and thirst, for well over three hours.
- He was in constant agony, a pain brought on by hunger and lack of energy.
- They used questionnaires to assess hunger and the desire for different food types.
- Unlike hunger or temptation, cravings are typically a draw toward specific foods that are, in excess, bad for you.
- The hunger and cravings are now non-existent, though I do begin to go a bit crazy.
- Hearty and filling, I came away from this part of the meal with my meat cravings satisfied, and my hunger stopped dead in its tracks.
- His head was throbbing and he was faint from hunger.
- Common symptoms of this are weakness, shaking, hunger and sweating.
- It alters the circuitry in the brain that regulates hunger and cravings for alcohol and nicotine.
- In these cases, a patient usually does not feel pain, hunger, or thirst.
- Such foods seem naturally to control hunger and appetite.
Synonyms lack of food, need for food, hungriness, ravenousness, emptiness - 1.1 A severe lack of food.
they died from cold and hunger Example sentencesExamples - As it is, way too many people are dying of hunger, dying of poverty, dying of disease, dying of bombs - all of which are preventable.
- One result of this was occasional and localized food shortages so severe as to occasion hunger, starvation, and death.
- Each day 50,000 people die of hunger and preventable illnesses.
- It is feared around 10,000 of them could perish from hunger, cold and disease in the next two weeks unless help arrives.
- These camps face severe problems of hunger, disease as well as security.
- Otherwise, we're going to lose lots and lots of people dying of hunger.
- More than 3,000 Mongolian gazelles have died of hunger and cold weather since blizzards hit the region this winter.
- Death, from hunger, cold, and reduced resistance to illnesses, none of which could be treated, was commonplace in Leningrad.
- Agricultural officials in West Africa say that if the current locust swarms worsen, up to one million people could face hunger.
- Many thousands, possibly millions would die of cold and hunger.
- In three weeks, 60,000 men were lost through cold, hunger and relentless attacks.
- Up to 3 million people are suffering from severe hunger while another 3 million have not got enough to eat.
- If orphaned cubs don't die of cold or hunger, they may be sold as pets or circus animals by hunters or poachers.
- What is required in the immediate is to save the lives of as many people as possible from hunger, thirst and epidemics.
- Nearly half of this country's children are suffering from such severe hunger that their physical and mental development is being seriously retarded.
- Often they marched with bare feet, their stomachs aching with hunger.
- We have enough resources in the country to look after our people in times of hunger and in times when they have plenty.
- He announced yesterday that almost 100 tonnes of food would have to be sourced to avert the threat of hunger in the affected areas.
- In 1984, there were reports of surplus in the south while one million people died of hunger in the northeastern regions of the country.
- Combined with the spectres of disease and hunger, the cold is expected to claim the lives of many who survived the initial earthquake.
- 1.2 A strong desire or craving.
Example sentencesExamples - The President fully understands people's hunger and thirst for justice.
- The unsatisfied hunger is an ache for things spiritual.
- It's infused with desire and loss, impossible tenderness, insatiable hunger.
- I'm very confident, the desire and hunger in the team is stronger than ever.
- I once went to a car boot sale and marvelled at the greed and hunger of the bargain hunters, me included.
- It might not be ground-breaking but it sure sates the appetite that their hunger for great tunes has precipitated.
- There was only one: the desire for vengeance, a hunger so strong that it had consumed his entire personality.
- However, I feel the need for a change and a hunger for new influences.
- Lending libraries are a boon for those who have a hunger for reading.
- And you get this hunger for his company, even his friendship, entirely through the voice and the language.
- Have sensible people never felt the insatiable hunger of infatuation?
- It was a grudge match, one neither could bear to lose, but gathering up the enthusiasm and hunger for the final shouldn't be a problem.
- I personally think that hunger for change for change's sake is pretty infantile.
- He still possesses the same hunger and childlike love of the game that has defined him throughout his illustrious career.
- His point was that the kids from the under-advantaged neighborhoods have a stronger hunger.
- The hunger for food yes, but also the hunger to tell Chris what was in his heart.
- For the shopaholic, there's an endless search for objects to satisfy a sense of inner longing or hunger.
- The hunger is still there and the panel is very strong.
- Throughout my life I've had a mad hunger for finding out things - for knowing things.
Synonyms desire, craving, longing, yearning, pining, hankering, thirst, appetite, lust, ache, want, need
verbˈhəŋɡərˈhəNGɡər [no object]1hunger after/forHave a strong desire or craving for. all actors hunger for such a role Example sentencesExamples - It hungers for change and progress, and some comics who are clearly on their way up can be hampered slightly if their show treads a little water this year.
- He hungers for a goodness that continually eludes him.
- Sure, I wander around checking out the talent, but there really is no one special I'm hungering for.
- There are moments when it seems that a whole society, or the majority of a society is actually hungering for war.
- Maybe it is a symptom that we are hungering for something different.
- It's ironic that this apotheosis of flash over substance comes at a time when the public is hungering for greater perspective and deeper understanding.
- The 18-year-old clearly loves playing up to the audience, as a performer she consistently hungers for attention.
- It's not a spiritual experience anymore and that's what people hunger for.
- Conspiracy is unnecessary when ideology hungers for power and its many adherents swarm of their own accord to the same pot of honey.
- Republicans tend to assume that everyone hungers for more investment accounts to handle.
- The consumer society hungers for the deviant and unexpected.
- He disbanded the group in 1982, hungering after a new direction and tired of the relentless pressure of his frontman role.
- The game that the comrades disapproved of because of its un-Soviet focus on the individual is ideal for an emerging nation, which hungers for new sports and new stars.
- I've mentioned this before, but I am still hungering for an explanation.
- Maybe it's just that I don't hunger for films the way I do for books.
- Aye, he was a kind and strong leader, but he hungered after adventure and ran after it with haste.
- But humanity hungers for a sense of right and wrong, for some absolute moral values.
- I looked over at Ethan, his eyes on me, a sudden flash of desire in his eyes, I knew he still hungered for me as my lips curled into a smile.
- Participation is what we were denied, and what we hungered for.
- Because, somehow, somewhere along the way, I stopped hungering for it.
Synonyms desire, crave, have a craving for 2archaic Feel or suffer hunger through lack of food. Example sentencesExamples - How many hungered, sickened or died as a result?
- By analogy, a mother does not love her child because it hungers and cries, even though its crying makes new demands upon her love.
- Tell it to all those who hungered and thirsted and prayed and begged for help.
Origin Old English hungor (noun), hyngran (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch honger and German Hunger. |