Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • See ahungered.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Hungry; pinched for food.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of hunger.
  • adjective obsolete Hungry; pinched for food.

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Examples

  • If Americans "hungered" for a real liberal, how do you explain John McCain being within a few points in the polls?

    Choice Of Biden Signals Vigorous Debate With GOP On Foreign Policy, But There Are Risks 2009

  • Now a professor at Georgetown University, Prof. Dyson "hungered" to know him, he says.

    Creepy, Sexy, Cool 2008

  • It was after a long journey, he noted, and the Lord's heart was touched by compassion for the masses who hungered for knowledge of heaven but did not know where to search for what they lacked.

    Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog: 2009

  • I watched as my heart hungered for the same affection.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Dad Jack Canfield 2011

  • As McCourt's business thrived, he hungered for a Major League Baseball team.

    Inside Baseball's Debt Disaster 2011

  • Though Kovacic hungered to put Danny in prison, the two men maintained a decent personal relationship.

    Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011

  • She feared, but she hungered—soon she was deepening the contact.

    Dreams of a Dark Warrior Kresley Cole 2011

  • The paragraph holds luminously good still for either Bobby – Jones or Moore:What we talk about here is not the hero as sportsman, but that something which a civilised community hungered for and found: the best performer in the world who was also hero as human being, the gentle, wholly self-sufficient male.

    My dream job as Bobby Moore's minder for a fortnight | Frank Keating 2011

  • Every time she posted new photographs on her blog, I coveted and hungered for the ability to see life as she saw it.

    Post Script Kait Em Bird 2011

  • As a new union official with access to large amounts of money—membership dues, special work fees, and payments from the shipping companies—Danny could socialize with men who had achieved the success he hungered for.

    Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011

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