hungry

/ˈhʌŋgri/ adjective

Definition

› wanting or needing food: I'm hungry. What's for supper? If you get hungry, there's some food in the fridge.

go hungry › to not have enough food to eat: In an ideal world, nobody should go hungry.

be hungry for sth › to have a strong wish for something: The journalists were hungry for more details of the accident.

hungrily adverb

(Definition of hungry adjective from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

everything that exists or is possible

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