hunger

hunger
    n 1: a physiological need for food; the consequence of food
         deprivation [syn: {hunger}, {hungriness}]
    2: strong desire for something (not food or drink); "a thirst
       for knowledge"; "hunger for affection" [syn: {hunger},
       {hungriness}, {thirst}, {thirstiness}]
    v 1: feel the need to eat
    2: have a craving, appetite, or great desire for [syn: {crave},
       {hunger}, {thirst}, {starve}, {lust}]
    3: be hungry; go without food; "Let's eat--I'm starving!" [syn:
       {starve}, {hunger}, {famish}] [ant: {be full}]
    

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.
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   2. To have an eager desire; to long.
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            Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after
            righteouness.                         --Matt. v. 6.
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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.
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   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.
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   2. Any strong eager desire.
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            O sacred hunger of ambitious minds!   --Spenser.
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            For hunger of my gold I die.          --Dryden.
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Hunger \Hun"ger\, v. t.
   To make hungry; to famish. Hunger-bit
    

HUNGER. The desire for taking food. Hunger is no excuse for larceny. 1 Hale, 
P. C. 54; 4 Bl. Com. 31. But it is a matter which applies itself strongly to 
the consciences of the judges in mitigation of the punishment. 
     2. When a person has died, and it is suspected he has been starved to 
death, an examination of his body ought to be made, to ascertain whether or 
not he died of hunger. The signs which usually attend death from hunger are 
the following: The body is much emaciated, and a foetid, acrid odor exhales 
from it, although death may have been very recent. The eyes are red and 
open, which is not usual in other causes of death. The tongue and throat are 
dry, even to aridity, and the stomach and intestines are contracted and 
empty. The gall bladder is pressed with bile, and this fluid is found 
scattered over the stomach and intestines, so as to tinge them very 
extensively. The lungs are withered, but all the other organs are generally 
in a healthy state. The blood vessels are usually empty. Foder�, tom. ii. p. 
276, tom. iii. p. 231; 2 Beck's Med. Jur. 52; see Eunom. Dial. 2, Sec. 47, 
p. 142, and the note at p. 384. 
    

122 Moby Thesaurus words for "hunger":
      ache, an universal wolf, appetence, appetency, appetite,
      appetition, aspire after, be ravenous, break bread,
      canine appetite, cannibalism, carnivorism, carnivority,
      carnivorousness, chewing, consumption, count calories, covet,
      coveting, crave, crave after, craving, crawl after, cropping,
      cupidity, deglutition, desire, devouring, devourment, diet,
      dieting, dining, drought, dryness, eat, eating, emptiness,
      empty stomach, epulation, eye hungrily, fall to, famine, fare,
      feasting, feed, feeding, feel hungry, gluttony, gobbling, grazing,
      hanker, hanker after, hankering, have a tapeworm, herbivorism,
      herbivority, herbivorousness, hollow hunger, hunger after,
      hunger for, hungriness, ingestion, itch, itching, licking, longing,
      lust, lust after, manducation, mania, mastication, messing,
      munching, nibbling, nutrition, omnivorism, omnivorousness,
      omophagy, pant after, pantophagy, partake, partake of, pasture,
      pasturing, pecking, pine, pitch in, polydipsia, prurience,
      pruriency, raven, ravenousness, regalement, relish, relishing,
      rumination, run mad after, savor, savoring, sexual desire, sigh,
      starvation, starve, stomach, sweet tooth, take, tapeworm, taste,
      tasting, thirst, thirst after, thirst for, thirstiness,
      torment of Tantalus, vegetarianism, voraciousness, voracity, want,
      wolfing, yearn, yearning, yen