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noun

a compelling need or desire for food.

the painful sensation or state of weakness caused by the need of food: to collapse from hunger.

a shortage of food; famine.

a strong or compelling desire or craving: hunger for power.

verb (used without object)

to feel hunger; be hungry.

to have a strong desire.

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verb (used with object)

Rare. to subject to hunger; starve.

Idiom

from hunger, Slang. deplorably bad; dreadful: The styles in coats this winter are from hunger. Also, strictly from hunger.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English; Old English hungor; cognate with German Hunger

Related forms

hun·ger·ing·ly, adverb

half-hun·gered, adjective

pre·hun·ger, noun

Synonyms
4. appetite, greed, lust, itch.

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Example Sentences

Widespread hunger remains intractable throughout the world and is exacting a high human toll.

Our students' spectacular hunger for life makes them radically vulnerable.

Rival fasters might also jump in since a hunger strike's extended drama so clearly suits live television.

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Widespread hunger remains intractable throughout the world and is exacting a high human toll.

Our students' spectacular hunger for life makes them radically vulnerable.

Rival fasters might also jump in since a hunger strike's extended drama so clearly suits live television.

People tend to eat as much as they're given, regardless of hunger.

Guys can lower their brain activity in hunger regions on command.

When autophagy was blocked, hunger signals were blocked and the mice became lighter and leaner.

Make the mix for this dried-fruit-and-nut–studded oatmeal ahead of time, to quickly satisfy morning hunger out in the wilderness.

Hunger poured onto the streets, burning tires and taking on soldiers and the police.

It's not that she has a hunger for excitement or fantasies of extreme wealth.

There are plenty of reasons to worry about food: uncertain politics, volatile prices, hunger amid plenty.

Their toil feeds the world's hunger for gold, and leaves a ruined landscape in its wake.

Leptin puts a double whammy on hunger by making food less rewarding.

History has shown that it's possible for people to overcome even extreme poverty and hunger.

Whip up a batch of these bars before your camping trip to satisfy hunger on hikes and other outdoor adventures.

Why, for instance, do people rely on the language of hunger when.

Her example shows there is a hunger for knowledge in the isolated country.

In fact, its thesis was that the discrediting of old ideologies had bred a hunger for new ones.

The male eventually gives in to his hunger and abandons the egg or chick.

Hunger is not a function of simple supply and demand, but population size matched to productive potential of food and water.

Sure it would be nice to find a cure to cancer, or stop hunger.

But there's no guarantee that those numbers won't shrink or-more likely-fail to scale as our bandwidth hunger grows.

It was hot, no one got dehydrated and no one fainted from hunger.

Imagine, too, that you could both eliminate some hunger and return some land to rain forest.

But while the urchins hunger after their homes, rock lobsters have developed a taste for the urchins themselves.

The only reason for hunger is corruption, political.

Wich in the end will hit two birds with one stone thus trying to end world hunger at the same time.

But it was only the beginning of a long struggle to maintain the speed and hunger of a small company even as it grew.

It works so much better than trying to curb your hunger with some fruit, only to remain as hungry.

The only things capable of motivating one into action are hatred or hunger.

The size of a hornet hive grows quickly as the season progresses-and so does the ravenous hunger of the young hornets.

We humans are incredibly demanding because of our hunger and thirst-and the messy, odoriferous products of our satiety.

There is a huge hunger for inexpensive mobile phones.

The plantings were done in time of great hunger and poverty on land stolen from the poor and left fallow.

Such is the hunger of oil companies for access to reserves that others may step in on the government's terms.

Efficient fishing fleets and an ever growing hunger for seafood have pushed many of the world's fisheries to the brink.

More research could potentialy lead to a major breakthrough in the war against hunger.

But even as our hunger for pills has grown, basic innovation has slowed.

While they hunger for their homeland, the prospect of returning seems dim.

We work to cure hunger and mortality without addressing natality.

Other common names include storm moon and hunger moon.

Efficiently raised, affordable crops and livestock feed our growing population, and hunger has largely been.

Monocropping vast fields with the same genetically uniform seeds helps boost yield and meet immediate hunger needs.

Hunger and inadequate water security will happen without diligence from us all.

The hypothalamus regulates the body's feeling of hunger and satiety-the full feeling you get after you've eaten a meal.

These trends sustained economic development and a significant reduction in global hunger and poverty.

Without rain there was no water for irrigation, crops failed, and hunger racked the entire population.

And growing economic pressure globally to produce biofuels rather than food may mean that hunger will not be erased anytime soon.

They had periods of hunger and our bodies evolved to thrive in that environment.

When you start talkiing about poverty and hunger and lack of opportunity.

We let our system be driven solely by profit hunger of a couple of large companies and lost sight of our safety.

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World English Dictionary

hunger (ˈhʌŋɡə)

—n
1.	a feeling of pain, emptiness, or weakness induced by lack of food
2.	an appetite, desire, need, or craving: hunger for a woman

—vb
3.	to have or cause to have a need or craving for food
4.	(intr; usually foll by for or after) to have a great appetite or desire (for)

[Old English hungor; related to Old High German hungar, Old Norse hungr, Gothic hūhrus]

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Word Origin & History

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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Medical Dictionary

hunger hun·ger (hŭng'gər)
n.

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

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