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hunger
noun (NEED FOR FOOD) /ˈhʌŋ.ɡər/
/-ɡɚ/ Definition
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B1 [U] the feeling you have when you need to eat: I can't believe that that enormous meal wasn't enough to satisfy your hunger. By about nine o'clock she started to feel faint from/with hunger. I often suffer from hunger pangs (= strong feelings of needing something to eat) in the middle of the afternoon.Hungry and thirsty B2 [U] a situation in which the body does not have enough food: All over the world, people die of hunger every day.Hungry and thirsty
(Definition of hunger noun (NEED FOR FOOD) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- (I'm so hungry), I could eat a horse idiom
- appetite noun (FOOD)
- be gasping idiom
- eat like a horse idiom
- famine noun
- famished adjective
- make sb's mouth water idiom
- munchies noun
- on an empty stomach idiom
- peckish adjective
- smack your lips idiom
- starvation noun
- starved adjective
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- thirsty adjective (NEED FOR DRINK)
- undernourished adjective
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