English words for 'Hunger.'
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noun
adj
- Hungry.
- needing nourishment
- Destitute of effect, sincerity, or sense; said of language.
- Destitute of, or lacking, sense, knowledge, or courtesy.
- (of some female animals, especially cows and sheep) Not pregnant; not producing offspring when expected to do so during the breeding season.
- Having nothing to carry, emptyhanded; unburdened.
- (computing, programming, mathematics) Containing no elements (as of a string, array, or set), opposed to being null (having no valid value).
- Unable to satisfy; hollow; vain.
- Destitute of reality, or real existence; unsubstantial.
- (wine) Lacking between the onset of tasting and the finish.
- Devoid of content; containing nothing or nobody; vacant.
- holding or containing nothing
- emptied of emotion
- devoid of significance or force
noun
verb
- (transitive, ergative) To make empty; to remove the contents of.
- (intransitive) Of a river, duct, etc: to drain or flow toward an ultimate destination.
- make void or empty of contents
- remove the contents of a container
- become empty or void of its content
- leave behind empty; move out of
- excrete or discharge from the body
adj
adj
adj
noun
- a state of extreme hunger resulting from lack of essential nutrients over a prolonged period
- the act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine
- (computer science) A state where a process is perpetually denied necessary resources to process its work.
- (figurative) Severe shortage of resources.
- A condition of severe suffering due to a lack of nutrition.
verb
- (intransitive) To be very hungry.
- be hungry; go without food
- (transitive) To force a combatant to submit or surrender by depriving of food, as in a targeted siege.
- (intransitive) To deteriorate for want of any essential thing.
- (transitive) To deprive of nourishment or of some vital component.
- (transitive) To make suffer severely by depriving of food.
- (intransitive) To suffer severely because of lack of food or of not eating.
- (transitive, British, especially Yorkshire and Lancashire) To kill with cold; to (cause to) die from cold.
- (transitive) To kill or attempt to kill by depriving of food.
- (intransitive) To die because of lack of food or of not eating.
- deprive of food
- die of food deprivation
- deprive of a necessity and cause suffering
- have a craving, appetite, or great desire for
adj
noun
verb
noun
- an appetite for food
- an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion
- the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis
- an inclination or liking for things involving conflict or difficulty or unpleasantness
- (figuratively) A desire, an appetite (for something abstract).
- (informal) The belly.
- An organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion.
- The part of a garment that covers a person's stomach.
verb
adj
noun
- A source of nourishment, such as food, that can be metabolized by an organism to give energy and build tissue.
- any substance (such as a chemical element or inorganic compound) that can be taken in by a green plant and used in organic synthesis
- any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue
verb
- feed greedily
- Originally followed by with: to experience great hunger; to be ravenous.
- prey on or hunt for
- obtain or seize by violence
- eat greedily
- Followed by about, after, or for: to go after or seek for something, especially booty or spoils; to maraud, to plunder; also (generally), to move about wildly and cause damage; to rampage.
- To eat greedily; also, followed by on or upon: of an animal: to prey on.
- (figurative) To absorb or take in (something, such as information) greedily; also, to approach or pounce on (someone) like prey.
- (figurative) To take and exploit or make use of greedily.
- (figurative) Sometimes followed by after or for: to have a strong craving or desire for, or to do, something; to crave, to desire, to yearn.
- Sometimes followed by after or for: to have a ravenous appetite or craving for food or prey.
- Sometimes followed by about or on: to move about searching for food or prey ravenously.
noun
- large black bird with a straight bill and long wedge-shaped tail
- (uncountable) A jet-black, often glossy, colour, like that of the plumage of a raven (etymology 1 sense 1).
- (countable) Any of several, generally large, species of birds in the genus Corvus with lustrous black plumage; especially the common raven (Corvus corax).
- (historical, countable) A flag bearing a raven (etymology 1 sense 1), formerly used by some Viking leaders
- (uncountable, metonymic) preceded by the: Viking military power.
- (chiefly fiction, countable) A person, especially a man, with black hair.
- Alternative spelling of ravin.
adj
noun
noun
- a state of extreme hunger resulting from lack of essential nutrients over a prolonged period
- the act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine
- (computer science) A state where a process is perpetually denied necessary resources to process its work.
- (figurative) Severe shortage of resources.
- A condition of severe suffering due to a lack of nutrition.
noun
verb
noun
- an appetite for food
- an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion
- the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis
- an inclination or liking for things involving conflict or difficulty or unpleasantness
- (figuratively) A desire, an appetite (for something abstract).
- (informal) The belly.
- An organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion.
- The part of a garment that covers a person's stomach.
verb
verb
- (intransitive) To be very hungry.
- be hungry; go without food
- (transitive) To force a combatant to submit or surrender by depriving of food, as in a targeted siege.
- (intransitive) To deteriorate for want of any essential thing.
- (transitive) To deprive of nourishment or of some vital component.
- (transitive) To make suffer severely by depriving of food.
- (intransitive) To suffer severely because of lack of food or of not eating.
- (transitive, British, especially Yorkshire and Lancashire) To kill with cold; to (cause to) die from cold.
- (transitive) To kill or attempt to kill by depriving of food.
- (intransitive) To die because of lack of food or of not eating.
- deprive of food
- die of food deprivation
- deprive of a necessity and cause suffering
- have a craving, appetite, or great desire for
verb
- feed greedily
- Originally followed by with: to experience great hunger; to be ravenous.
- prey on or hunt for
- obtain or seize by violence
- eat greedily
- Followed by about, after, or for: to go after or seek for something, especially booty or spoils; to maraud, to plunder; also (generally), to move about wildly and cause damage; to rampage.
- To eat greedily; also, followed by on or upon: of an animal: to prey on.
- (figurative) To absorb or take in (something, such as information) greedily; also, to approach or pounce on (someone) like prey.
- (figurative) To take and exploit or make use of greedily.
- (figurative) Sometimes followed by after or for: to have a strong craving or desire for, or to do, something; to crave, to desire, to yearn.
- Sometimes followed by after or for: to have a ravenous appetite or craving for food or prey.
- Sometimes followed by about or on: to move about searching for food or prey ravenously.
noun
- large black bird with a straight bill and long wedge-shaped tail
- (uncountable) A jet-black, often glossy, colour, like that of the plumage of a raven (etymology 1 sense 1).
- (countable) Any of several, generally large, species of birds in the genus Corvus with lustrous black plumage; especially the common raven (Corvus corax).
- (historical, countable) A flag bearing a raven (etymology 1 sense 1), formerly used by some Viking leaders
- (uncountable, metonymic) preceded by the: Viking military power.
- (chiefly fiction, countable) A person, especially a man, with black hair.
- Alternative spelling of ravin.
adj
noun
verb
adj
- Hungry.
- needing nourishment
- Destitute of effect, sincerity, or sense; said of language.
- Destitute of, or lacking, sense, knowledge, or courtesy.
- (of some female animals, especially cows and sheep) Not pregnant; not producing offspring when expected to do so during the breeding season.
- Having nothing to carry, emptyhanded; unburdened.
- (computing, programming, mathematics) Containing no elements (as of a string, array, or set), opposed to being null (having no valid value).
- Unable to satisfy; hollow; vain.
- Destitute of reality, or real existence; unsubstantial.
- (wine) Lacking between the onset of tasting and the finish.
- Devoid of content; containing nothing or nobody; vacant.
- holding or containing nothing
- emptied of emotion
- devoid of significance or force
noun
verb
- (transitive, ergative) To make empty; to remove the contents of.
- (intransitive) Of a river, duct, etc: to drain or flow toward an ultimate destination.
- make void or empty of contents
- remove the contents of a container
- become empty or void of its content
- leave behind empty; move out of
- excrete or discharge from the body
adj
adj
adj
adj
adj
noun
- A source of nourishment, such as food, that can be metabolized by an organism to give energy and build tissue.
- any substance (such as a chemical element or inorganic compound) that can be taken in by a green plant and used in organic synthesis
- any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue