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Meanings of hunger in English
State in which a person, for a sustained period, is unable to eat sufficient food to meet basic nutritional needs.
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Examples for "thirst"
Examples for "thirst"
1
Reason for first visit: constant thirst and hunger paired with weight loss.
2
Investors, in their thirst for good news, are getting ahead of themselves.
3
We must listen to this thirst for freedom of nations, she said.
4
The next day came; intolerable was the thirst we endured by noon.
5
Nothing like sleeping fifteen hundred years to work up a real thirst.
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I felt immediately a fit of blood-thirstiness creep over me.
2
Even nowadays, though, the thirstiness of mankind is something supernatural.
3
Then his brain flamed with the sole horror of thirstiness!
4
Every year you are bombing this or that nation, because of your thirstiness for blood.
5
It ain't anything but air and heat and thirstiness pasted together by a person's imagination.
1
He seemed to be responding, with a hungriness that thrilled his wife.
2
From one it swells out into rounded fullness; from the other it gapes as in empty hungriness.
3
Oh, you'll die of hungriness, I expect.
4
Hungriness and sleepiness came just as regularly as if they had had nights and clocks both, to measure time by.
Usage of hunger in English
1
The political crisis in neighbouring Mali has only compounded the hunger problem.
2
The country is facing a hunger crisis but food aid still flows.
3
Job losses had spread hunger into new areas in cities, Sooliman said.
4
Cooperation satisfies a natural hunger for solidarity that makes all community possible.
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SHNSA provides a sustainable solution to combat hunger and poverty, she said.
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Values like hunger, desire, work rate, competing are hammered home every day.
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Senator John Kerry said, as hunger and disease threaten millions of victims.
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And it's being made worse by its solution to another problem: hunger.
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Reason for first visit: constant thirst and hunger paired with weight loss.
10
It was a form of protection against the Psy hunger for power.
11
One possibility, said Davy, is that water could squelch feelings of hunger.
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So far, there appears to be a real hunger for this information.
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May 13: Hundreds of students begin a hunger strike on Tiananmen Square.
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Millions of people died, most from hunger and disease rather than violence.
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Besides escaping hunger, this household needs the means to exploit economic opportunities.
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Cork have known longer famines but never have they shown greater hunger.
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Hunger across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common
South Africa
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