to hunger
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- verb
- /ˈhʌŋɡər/
- "After skipping breakfast, I began to hunger for lunch by noon."
- hunger for food
- man hungered
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Examples
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Father, Your flock has come to this place to hear Your Word and lift their hearts to You, and now they hunger for bread.
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Blessed are those who hunger for what is right, for you will feast.
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In planning for your future, you not only hunger for good, nourishing food, you also hunger for knowledge and truth.
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The nobles hunger and suffer.
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When they hunger, they're fed.
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Blessed are those who hunger and thirst.
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"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.
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"God blesses those who hunger and thirst for justice, for righteousness, for they will be satisfied."
Synonyms
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3.8
To want something very much
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6.3
To want something very strongly, often something forbidden
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4.3
To want something very much because you do not have it
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Compounds
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6.8
A famine in Ireland from 1846 to 1851 caused by a potato disease that forced many people to leave
How Hungry
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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.