Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being hungry; a need for food.
- noun An intense desire.
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- noun The characteristic of being
hungry ;hunger .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun strong desire for something (not food or drink)
- noun a physiological need for food; the consequence of food deprivation
- noun prolonged unfulfilled desire or need
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Examples
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We spend most of the year hiding from the cold, we are not that comfortable in our bodies, we're reserved, polite, easily embarrassed and we just lack a kind of hungriness and fundamental drive that you need to do consistently well in sport, especially at today's level ....
Wimbledon 2010 live blog: 23 June Xan Brooks at Wimbledon 2010
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They saw it as time for Google to recapture some of the hungriness of a start-up.
In the Plex Steven Levy 2011
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They saw it as time for Google to recapture some of the hungriness of a start-up.
In the Plex Steven Levy 2011
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He shoveled in the delicious protein while continuing to assert his not-hungriness.
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He shoveled in the delicious protein while continuing to assert his not-hungriness.
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* In a bowl, scramble eggs (I used 4 for my pie, take more or less depending on the size of your pan and grade of hungriness) with salt, pepper, and whatever other spices you like.
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There are several great Japanese restaurants around Stockholm, but for ease of parking coming from our direction and general hungriness we chose one called “Sandai-me Kato”.
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Abdilahi, 85, is an elder in Balli Hiile; "When I look at the landscape now, I think of hungriness" he says, looking out at the parched land surrounding him.
Louis Belanger: Slideshow: Somaliland's Nomadic Lifestyle at Risk 2009
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"When I look at the landscape now, I think of hungriness", he says, looking out at the parched land surrounding him.
Louis Belanger: Somaliland & drought: the tale of one elderly 2009
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Man should only eat his fellow man out of hungriness.
"Artist to feed convict to goldfish." Ann Althouse 2008
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