Look up: Hunger

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   hunger
   [n] - a physiological need for food 2. [n] - strong desire for something (not food or drink) 3. [v] - feel the need to eat
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   Hunger
   Hun'ger noun [ Anglo-Saxon hungor ; akin to OFries. hunger , Dutch honger , Old Saxon & Old High German hungar , German hunger , Icelandic hungr , Swedish & Danish 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. » The sen ...
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   Hunger
   Hun'ger intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Hungered ; present participle & verbal noun Hungering .] [ Middle English hungren , Anglo-Saxon hyngrian . See Hunger , noun ] 1. To feel the craving or uneasiness occasioned by want of food; to be oppressed by hunger. 2. ...
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   Hunger
   Hun'ger transitive verb To make hungry; to famish.
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   hunger
   1. An uneasy sensation occasioned normally by the want of food; a craving or desire for food. ... 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 o ...
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   hunger
   hungriness noun strong desire for something (not food or drink); `a thirst for knowledge`; `hunger for affection`
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   hunger
   verb feel the need to eat
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   Hunger
   `Hunger` is a feeling experienced when the glycogen level of the liver falls below a threshold, usually followed by a desire to eat. The usually unpleasant feeling originates in the hypothalamus and is released through receptors in the liver. Although an average nourished human can survive weeks without food intake, the sensation of hunger typically begins after a couple of hours without eating and is generally considered quite uncomfortable. Hu...
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   hunger
   (hung´gәr) a craving, as for food. air hunger Kussmaul respiration.
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    Hunger
    • (n.) To feel the craving or uneasiness occasioned by want of food; to be oppressed by hunger. • (v. t.) To make hungry; to famish. • (n.) Any strong eager desire. • (n.) An uneasy sensation occasioned normally by the want of food; a craving or desire for food. • (n.) To have an eager desire; to long.Hunger: words in the d...
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    hunger
    (from the article `Djibouti`) An estimated 53,000 Djiboutians faced malnutrition and hunger when in April and May the UN World Food Programme halted its feeding programs, owing to ... ...could grow only enough food to feed two-thirds of its people, and international assistance made up only part of the shortfall. More than a million ... ...
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    Hunger
    (from the article `Hamsun, Knut`) His first publication was the novel Sult (1890; Hunger), the story of a starving young writer in Norway. Sult marked a clear departure from the ...
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    hunger
    
    1. a physiological need for food
    2. strong desire for something (not food or drink)
    
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