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hun⋅ger

  [huhng-ger]
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–noun
1. a compelling need or desire for food.
2. the painful sensation or state of weakness caused by the need of food: to collapse from hunger.
3. a shortage of food; famine.
4. a strong or compelling desire or craving: hunger for power.
–verb (used without object)
5. to feel hunger; be hungry.
6. to have a strong desire.
–verb (used with object)
7. Rare. to subject to hunger; starve.
—Idiom
8. from hunger, Slang. deplorably bad; dreadful: The styles in coats this winter are from hunger. Also, strictly from hunger.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME; OE hungor; c. G Hunger

Related forms:
hun⋅ger⋅ing⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
4. appetite, greed, lust, itch.
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hun·ger   (hŭng'gər)   
n.  
    1. A strong desire or need for food.
    2. The discomfort, weakness, or pain caused by a prolonged lack of food.
  2. A strong desire or craving: a hunger for affection.
v.   hun·gered, hun·ger·ing, hun·gers

v.   intr.
  1. To have a need or desire for food.
  2. To have a strong desire or craving.
v.   tr.
To cause to experience hunger; make hungry.

[Middle English, from Old English hungor.]
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Hunger

Hun"ger\, n. [AS. hungor; akin to OFries. hunger, D. honger, OS. & OHG. hungar, G. hunger, Icel. hungr, Sw. & Dan. hunger, Goth. h?hrus hunger, huggrjan to hunger.]

1. An uneasy sensation occasioned normally by the want of food; a craving or desire for food.

Note: The sensation of hunger is usually referred to the stomach, but is probably dependent on excitation of the sensory nerves, both of the stomach and intestines, and perhaps also on indirect impressions from other organs, more or less exhausted from lack of nutriment.

2. Any strong eager desire.

O sacred hunger of ambitious minds! --Spenser.

For hunger of my gold I die. --Dryden.

Hunger

Hun"ger\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Hungered; p. pr. & vb. n. Hungering.] [OE. hungren, AS. hyngrian. See Hunger, n.]

1. To feel the craving or uneasiness occasioned by want of food; to be oppressed by hunger.

2. To have an eager desire; to long.

Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteouness. --Matt. v. 6.

Hunger

Hun"ger\, v. t. To make hungry; to famish.
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Language Translation for : hunger
Spanish: hambre,
German: der Hunger,
Japanese: 空腹
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hunger 
O.E. hungor "unease or pain caused by lack of food, craving appetite, debility from lack of food," from P.Gmc. *khungrus (cf. O.H.G. hungar, O.N. hungr, Ger. hunger, Du. honger, Goth. huhrus), probably from PIE base *kenk- "to burn, be dry, pain." Hungry is O.E. hungrig.
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Main Entry: hun·ger
Pronunciation: 'h&[ng]-g&r
Function: noun
1 : a craving, desire, or urgent need for food
2 : an uneasy sensation occasioned normally by the lack of food and resulting directly from stimulation of the sensory nerves of the stomach by the contraction and churning movement of the empty stomach
3 : a weakened disordered condition brought about by prolonged lack of food hunger>
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hunger hun·ger (hŭng'gər)
n.

  1. A strong desire or need for food.
  2. The discomfort, weakness, or pain caused by a prolonged lack of food.
  3. A strong desire or craving, as for affection.

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