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hungry

 
 
/ˈhʌŋgri/ adjective

Translation

wanting or needing food
aç, acıkmış
I'm hungry. What's for supper? If you get hungry, there's some food in the fridge.850
go hungry to not have enough food to eat
aç kalmak
In an ideal world, nobody should go hungry.850
be hungry for sth to have a strong wish for something
aşırı istekli/hevesli olmak
The journalists were hungry for more details of the accident.928
hungrily adverb
aç bir şekilde
(Definition of hungry adjective from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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