hunger
- IPA[ˈhʌŋɡə]
英式
- a feeling of discomfort or weakness caused by lack of food, coupled with the desire to eat；a severe lack of food
- have a strong desire or craving for；feel or suffer hunger
verb: hunger, 3rd person present: hungers, gerund or present participle: hungering, past tense: hungered, past participle: hungered
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- 相關詞
名詞
- 1. a feeling of discomfort or weakness caused by lack of food, coupled with the desire to eat she was faint with hunger 同義詞
- ▪ a severe lack of food they died from cold and hunger
- ▪ a strong desire or craving her hunger for knowledge 同義詞 反義詞
動詞
- 1. have a strong desire or craving for he hungered for a sense of self-worth
- 2. archaic feel or suffer hunger when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he afterwards hungered
- a prolonged refusal to eat, carried out as a protest by a prisoner: one hundred students began a hunger strike political prisoners who had gone on hunger strike
Oxford Dictionary
- a prolonged refusal to eat, carried out as a protest by a prisoner: one hundred students began a hunger strike political prisoners who had gone on hunger strike
Oxford American Dictionary
- a march undertaken by a group of people in protest against unemployment or poverty, especially ...
Oxford Dictionary
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- IPA[ˈhəNGɡər]
美式
- a feeling of discomfort or weakness caused by lack of food, coupled with the desire to eat: she was faint with hunger
- have a strong desire or craving for: all actors hunger for such a role
Oxford American Dictionary
