Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A sensation of dryness in the mouth and throat related to a need or desire to drink.
- noun The desire to drink.
- noun An insistent desire; a craving.
- intransitive verb To feel a need to drink.
- intransitive verb To have a strong craving; yearn.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A waterless region.
- noun A feeling of dryness in the mouth and throat; the uncomfortable sensations arising from the want of fluid nutriment; the uneasiness or suffering occasioned by want of drink; vehement desire for drink.
- noun Figuratively, an ardent desire for anything; a craving.
- To experience uncomfortable sensations for want of drink; have desire to drink; be dry.
- To have a vehement desire; crave.
- To have a thirst for, literally or figuratively; desire ardently; crave: now usually followed by an infinitive as the object.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To have a thirst for.
- noun A sensation of dryness in the throat associated with a craving for liquids, produced by deprivation of drink, or by some other cause (as fear, excitement, etc.) which arrests the secretion of the pharyngeal mucous membrane; hence, the condition producing this sensation.
- noun Fig.: A want and eager desire after anything; a craving or longing; -- usually with
for ,of , orafter . - transitive verb To feel thirst; to experience a painful or uneasy sensation of the throat or fauces, as for want of drink.
- transitive verb To have a vehement desire.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
sensation ofdryness in the throat associated with acraving for liquids, produced by deprivation of drink, or by some other cause (as fear, excitement, etc.) which arrests the secretion of the pharyngeal mucous membrane; hence, the condition producing this sensation. - noun figurative A want and eager desire after anything; a
craving orlonging ; — usually with for, of, or after; as, the thirst for gold. - verb To
desire . - verb To
be thirsty .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a physiological need to drink
- noun strong desire for something (not food or drink)
- verb have a craving, appetite, or great desire for
- verb feel the need to drink
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Zoretti was an Italian nobleman -- "one of those characters in whose bosom resides an unquenchable thirst of avarice" [ "_thirst_ of _avarice_" is good!], etc.
The English Novel George Saintsbury 1889
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"'Hunger and thirst after righteousness' -- I do desire it -- I do not '_hunger and thirst_.'
Hills of the Shatemuc Susan Warner 1852
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The word "thirst, " rhyming with "first" may make you think of the first water you drank in a certain place or with a certain person.
Ruth Gerson: How to Write a Song: For Writer's Block or Beginners Ruth Gerson 2011
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After a "lifelong, congenital disappointment," a deeper thirst is troubling him, too, a desperate desire for a kind of beauty that seems out of reach: "He can't stop himself from mourning some lost world, he couldn't say which world exactly but someplace that isn't this."
Michael Cunningham's "By Nightfall," reviewed by Ron Charles Ron Charles 2010
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After a "lifelong, congenital disappointment," a deeper thirst is troubling him, too, a desperate desire for a kind of beauty that seems out of reach: "He can't stop himself from mourning some lost world, he couldn't say which world exactly but someplace that isn't this."
Michael Cunningham's "By Nightfall," reviewed by Ron Charles Ron Charles 2010
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NEONBEAR yea, i'd say thirst is his next best movie after oldboy. mikeyrogers
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Oh yeah, dying of thirst from the water they took to do that scam.
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Then when my thirst is of extreme and dire need, I tilt the bowl back and drink the entire contents in one long haul.
Six Unimportant Things About Me « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008
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Then when my thirst is of extreme and dire need, I tilt the bowl back and drink the entire contents in one long haul.
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It constitutes an artificial pleasure more than a natural need: this thirst is inextinguishable, because the drinks one takes to appease it have the unfailing effect of causing it to arise anew; this thirst, which ends up becoming habitual, makes for the drunkards of all countries; and it almost always happens that the impotation ceases only when the liquor is lacking, or when it has vanquished the drinker and put him out of action.
Economies of Excess in Brillat-Savarin, Balzac, and Baudelaire 2007
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A couple of my female friends agree to let me post some of their vacation photos designed to get likes from men, otherwise known as “thirst traps”.
How to catch a catfisher Max Benwell 2019
brobbins commented on the word thirst
lack of knowledge
July 24, 2009