thirstnoun
uk/θɜːst/us/θɝːst/thirst noun (NEED FOR DRINK)
B2 [ S or U ] a need for something to drink:
Hundreds of refugees collapsed from hunger and thirst.
I woke up with a pounding headache and a raging (= extreme) thirst.
I've got a terrible thirst after all that running.
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Hungry & thirsty
- (I'm so hungry), I could eat a horse idiom
- appetite
- be gasping idiom
- eat
- eat like a horse idiom
- empty
- gasp
- hunger
- hungry
- make sb's mouth water idiom
- munchies
- ravenous
- smack
- smack your lips idiom
- starvation
- starved
- starving
- thirsty
- unquenchable
- voracious
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thirst noun (WISH)
C2 [ S ] literary a strong wish:
He's always had a thirst for adventure.
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Feelings of desire
- appetite
- caprice
- compulsion
- covetous
- craving
- dream
- drive
- get itchy feet idiom
- hankering
- hunger
- impulse buy
- inclination
- longing
- lust
- urge
- vaulting
- whim
- wish
- yearning
- yen
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