to hunger
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3.9
- verb
- /ˈhʌŋɡər/
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- This is a girl who hungers for a relationship with her father.
Something in me hungered and I honor my teachers to this day.
- Something in me hungered and I honor my teachers to this day.
Examples
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Many students hunger for success as they prepare for their final exams.
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The things that I look for in people are hunger and focus.
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And that hunger to, to learn about music and learn about life.
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Now more than anything else, what we hunger for, is companionship.
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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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If you hunger for righteousness, you will be filled... through me.
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I realized something else, too: how rarely I'd known the touch of another human hand, how much I hungered for it.
Fiction book (2002) -
How blessed are those who hunger and thirst to see right prevail.
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Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
Blog text (28) -
She hungers for knowledge and is always eager to learn more.
Synonyms
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3.8
To want something very much
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4.3
To want something very much because you do not have it
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6.3
To want something very strongly, often something forbidden
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5.2
To have a strong wish for something
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
A famine in Ireland from 1846 to 1851 caused by a potato disease that forced many people to leave
How Hungry
Surface Forms
Etymology
Hunger originally meant a physical 'need for food' and is the same root as hungry. That's why when people say they 'hunger' for news or success, they mean a deep, strong craving that feels like a real need.