HUNGER

n. v.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

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

2.
n.

Any strong eager desire. O sacred hunger of ambitious minds! Spenser. For hunger of my gold I die. Dryden.

3.
v.

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

4.
v.

To have an eager desire; to long. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteouness. Matt. v. 6.

5.
v.

To make hungry; to famish.

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