Definitions for Hunger

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Hunger hun·ger

Spelling: [huhng-ger]

IPA: /ˈhʌŋ gər/

Hunger is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 71 anagrams from letters in Hunger (eghnru).

Definitions for Hunger

noun

1. a compelling need or desire for food.
2. the painful sensation or state of weakness caused by the need of food:
3. a shortage of food; famine.
4. a strong or compelling desire or craving:

Idioms

1. from hunger, Slang. deplorably bad; dreadful: Also, strictly from hunger.

verb (used with object)

1. Rare. to subject to hunger; starve.

verb (used without object)

1. to feel hunger; be hungry.
2. to have a strong desire.

Origin of Hunger

before 900; Middle English; Old English hungor; cognate with German Hunger

Examples for Hunger

His hunger strike in December 2011 received nation-wide recognition and was one of the sparks that ignited the protest movement.

Whole tribes and clans were wiped out by hunger and cold and want.

Now Jena Malone is 30, and with roles in Inherent Vice, The hunger Games, and a massive superhero film, all the rage.

World peace, religious tolerance, and an end to global poverty, hunger, and disease.

hunger and cold seemed to have driven them from their former homes.

The Czar might retreat until his pursuers perished of fatigue and hunger.

The hunger for the manhunt is like the hunger for food, and Bill Dozier had been starved for many a day.

I wish this was the last time I had to worry about hunger and bombs.

Our allies are the millions who hunger and thirst after righteousness.

While in pre-trial detention, Krivov undertook two hunger strikes.