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to hunger

to hunger

4 1.2
To feel a strong need to eat
  • verb
  • /ˈhʌŋɡər/
translation icon : tener hambre
  • "After skipping breakfast, I began to hunger for lunch by noon."
  • hunger for food
  • man hungered

Long has he slumbered, and oh, how he hungers.

Examples

  • Father, Your flock has come to this place to hear Your Word and lift their hearts to You, and now they hunger for bread.

  • Blessed are those who hunger for what is right, for you will feast.

  • In planning for your future, you not only hunger for good, nourishing food, you also hunger for knowledge and truth.

  • The nobles hunger and suffer.

  • When they hunger, they're fed.

  • Blessed are those who hunger and thirst.

  • "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for uprightness: they shall have their fill.

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  • As a result, people hunger, people are uneducated, and following this, people are prone to become extremists.

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  • That we might be thy children in thy love and mercy, but as we hunger for this food of our bodies so our souls hunger for the food of eternal life.

  • "God blesses those who hunger and thirst for justice, for righteousness, for they will be satisfied."

Synonyms

to crave
vsto hunger
103 3.8

To want something very much

is limited to needing or desiring food rather than anything
to starve
vsto hunger
  • Informal
68 4.3

To want something very much because you do not have it

describes a strong need for food in a bodily literal sense
to lust
vsto hunger
  • NSFW
30 6.3

To want something very strongly, often something forbidden

centres on the physical need for food rather than forbidden desire

Antonyms

192 2.2

A pleasant feeling when you achieve something or your needs are met

7 2.7

A state in which something has as much inside as it can hold

Idioms

7 8.6

Because someone feels very hungry

Compounds

29 3.2

To refuse to eat as a way to protest or demand change

A strong, lasting wish to learn new things

A strong wish to try exciting or unusual experiences

9.8

A strong feeling or sound in the stomach that tells you to eat soon

hunger march
  • Archaic
6.5

A march of people without work to demand jobs or food

hunger marcher
  • Archaic
8.5

A person who walks in a protest to ask for food and jobs

A very strong desire to control other people

A famine in Ireland from 1846 to 1851 caused by a potato disease that forced many people to leave

How Hungry

starving
1 1.4
ravenous
18 6.0
to hunger
4 1.2
hungry
1.0
peckish
  • UK
5 7.3

Surface Forms

hunger infinitive
hungered past
hungered past participle
hungering present participle
hungers third person singular

Etymology

Hunger comes from an old English word that meant 'need for food', and it is the same root as hungry, so to hunger for a meal is to feel a strong physical need to eat.