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👆 These or those 🥤 To be thirsty
to thir

to thir

9.9
To feel a strong need to drink, used in older English
  • verb
  • Archaic
translation icon : tener sed
  • As the sun beat down, she felt thir and longed for a refreshing beverage.

Examples

  • After a long hike, he found himself thir for a cold drink.

  • The weary travelers were thir and searched for water.

  • I don't think that we're, you know, thirsting for information that doesn't exist on how to, you know, make this kind of trans transformation.

  • An elegant crossbow that thirsted for blood and a gleaming plow that ruined cultivated fields, among others.

Synonyms

to thirst
vsto thir
3 1.0

To feel a need to drink water

expresses a stronger, urgent need to drink and is archaic

Antonyms

satiated
1 5.5

Having eaten enough that you do not want more food

quenched
4.0

A thirst or desire that is satisfied so you no longer feel it

Surface Forms

thir infinitive
thirsted past
thirsted past participle
thirsting present participle
thirs third person singular

Etymology

The verb thir comes from an old word for 'thirst' and is the same root as the English thirst, so to thir is to 'want to drink' or to be very thirsty.