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Hunger   /hˈəŋgər/   Listen
noun
Hunger  n.  
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!" "For hunger of my gold I die."



verb
Hunger  v. t.  To make hungry; to famish.



Hunger  v. i.  (past & past part. hungered; pres. part. hungering)  
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."






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"Hunger" Quotes from Famous Books



... husband's health prevented him from public speaking, and it seemed that this duty for us both was to fall on me. But I dreaded facing the Home Church without some spiritual uplift,—a fresh vision for myself. The Lord saw this heart-hunger, and in his own glorious way he fulfilled literally the promise, "He satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with ...
— How I Know God Answers Prayer - The Personal Testimony of One Life-Time • Rosalind Goforth

... possession of me at times—what if the heather-grown heath were still here the same as it was centuries ago, undisturbed, untouched by the hand of man! But as I have said, I did not mean it seriously. For when tired and weary, suffering from hunger and thirst, I thought longingly of the Arab's tent and coffee-pot, I thanked God that a heather-thatched roof—be it even miles ...
— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol. 5 • Various

... plunged in deep slumber, naturally, they could not tell. Night and day were the same to them; and as Dallas said, from the hunger they felt they might have been hibernating in a torpid state for a week, ...
— To Win or to Die - A Tale of the Klondike Gold Craze • George Manville Fenn

... finding no response to his hand-bell, no attendant in the anteroom, the outer doors locked as usual, but the sentinel's tread in the court below hushed and still, a cold thrill for a moment shot through his blood.—"Was he left for hunger to do its silent work?" Slowly he bent his way from the outer rooms back to his chamber; and, as he passed the casement again, he heard, though far in the distance, through the dim air of the deepening twilight, the cry ...
— The Last Of The Barons, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... a rogue, for example, a company-monger, Grows fat on the gain of the shares he has sold, While the public gets lean, winning nothing but hunger And a few scraps of scrip for its masses of gold; When the fat man goes further and takes to religion, A rascal in hymn-books and Bibles disguised, "It's a case," says Sir Henry, "of rook versus pigeon, And the pigeon gets left—well, ...
— The Reminiscences Of Sir Henry Hawkins (Baron Brampton) • Henry Hawkins Brampton


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