hunger

SubstantivVerbhäufig in Dialogen

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A need or compelling desire for food.

Substantiv

1
A need or compelling desire for food.
2
Any strong desire or need.
I have a hunger to win.
O sacred hunger of ambitious minds!
When gangsters bump my shit, can they feel my hunger?
Putin's unwillingness to declare another partial reserve call up has created a wider manpower hunger in the Russian military and border service, and Putin alone maintains the ability to remedy this issue.

Herkunft

From Middle English hunger, from Old English hungor (“hunger, desire; famine”), from Proto-West Germanic *hungr, from Proto-Germanic *hungruz, *hunhruz (“hunger”), from Proto-Indo-European *kenk- (“to burn, smart, desire, hunger, thirst”). Cognate with West Frisian honger, hûnger (“hunger”), Dutch honger (“hunger”), German Low German Hunger (“hunger”), German Hunger (“hunger”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish hunger (“hunger”), Faroese and Icelandic hungur (“hunger”).

Verb

1
To be in need of food.
Therefore if thine enemie hunger, feed him: if he thirst, giue him drink. For in so doing thou shalt heape coales of fire on his head.
2
übertragenTo have a desire (for); to long; to yearn.
I hungered for your love.
Blessed are they which doe hunger and thirst after righteousnesse: for they shall be filled.
In our lives we hunger for those we cannot touch.
3
altertümlichTo make hungry; to famish.

Herkunft

From Middle English hungren, from Old English hyngran, hyngrian, ġehyngrian (“to be hungry”), from Proto-West Germanic *hungrijan, from Proto-Germanic *hungrijaną.

Formen

Plural: hungers
Präteritum: hungered
Partizip II: hungered
Partizip I: hungering
3. Person Singular: hungers

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hunger · A need or compelling desire for food.

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