from hunger
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8.6
- idiom
:
de hambre
- Small children were telling, in raspy voices swollen from hunger, of their struggle to survive the brutal reality of being lost on Earth.
- suffer from hunger
- die from hunger
- people suffer from hunger
Nerve Subject, I think, has died from hunger because I did not feed him.
- Nerve Subject, I think, has died from hunger because I did not feed him.
- Somewhere right now, billions of animals are suffering in the wild from predation, from disease, from hunger, from fear.
- It's going to optimize the nine hormones that are involved in helping you burn fat and helping you to not suffer from hunger.
Examples
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Have you ever given thought to the factors that make you eat apart from hunger?
Blog text (13) -
Each year, 40 million people die from hunger and hunger-related diseases.
Academic text (1990) -
We'll be safe from hunger as long as we live.
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What about the people who are dying from hunger while they are singing?
Blog text (31) -
However, nowadays you will find both women and men dying from hunger in certain areas of the world.
Blog text (9) -
Five to six million preschool children die each year from hunger, malnutrition, and poverty.
Academic text (2005) -
I'm weak from hunger.
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I'm dying from hunger!
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I met him one day on the street as he trudged along, suffering from hunger spasms, while no one showed him any mercy.
Fiction book (1994) -
As long as children die from hunger, our job here is not yet finished.
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase 'from hunger' combines the causal preposition 'from' (indicating reason) with 'hunger' (the need to eat), so its meaning 'because of being hungry' is directly derivable from the constituents. This cause-expression pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows standard English composition, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand it.
Etymology
From hunger shows a simple image: someone does something from strong hunger, for example eating leftovers or fainting after a long time without food. That's why it means 'because of being hungry'.