English | German | Russian | Czech
Englishfor English speakers
Englishas a second language
B1

hunger English

Meaning hunger meaning

What does hunger mean?
Definitions in simple English

hunger Noun

— Hunger is the feeling when wanting food when your stomach is empty. When I have hunger then I want to have some food. He suffered from hunger and thirst. — Hunger is a serious lack of food. Even after the war, people are dying of poverty and hunger.

hunger

— noun a physiological need for food; the consequence of food deprivation — noun (= thirst) strong desire for something (not food or drink) a thirst for knowledge hunger for affection — verb feel the need to eat — verb (= starve) be hungry; go without food Let's eat--I'm starving! — verb (= crave) have a craving, appetite, or great desire for

Synonyms hunger synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as hunger?

hunger English » English

famine starvation starve hungry appetite thirst desire famish lust crave be hungry hungriness yearn wish want thirstiness thirst for thirst after starving pine long languish hanker empty stomach desire of eating I am hungry yearning yearn for sense of hunger scarcity satiety regret poor pipe dream nestia nesteia need miss malnutrition longing long for inkling inappetance inanition illness hunger for greed go hungry get hungry fish

Topics hunger topics

What do people use hunger to talk about?
Daily life Food Eat

Hungry, thirsty
Person Body Internal organs

Stomach
Language and thought

Want
States Time Period of time

Season

Conjugation hunger conjugation

How do you conjugate hunger?

hunger · verb

Examples hunger examples

How do I use hunger in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Tom went on a hunger strike.
I would never go on a hunger strike for anything.
Tom has been on hunger strike for a week.
To him, hunger was an abstract concept; he always had enough to eat.
Hunger is the best sauce.
My stomach is clenched with hunger.
Hunger knows no law.
Thousands of people died of hunger.
A piece of bread was not enough to satisfy his hunger.
The traveler fainted from hunger, but soon he came to.
The animal died from hunger.
The meal satisfied his hunger.
He was crying with hunger.
The apple appeased my hunger temporarily.
In these countries hunger is the rule.
Hunger compelled the boy to steal money from the cash register.
Hunger drove him to steal.
I have hunger pangs.
It goes without saying that hunger is the best sauce.
Those who are suffering from hunger in Africa need urgent help.
Hunger urged him to steal.

Movie subtitles

Oh, yeah, I'll get in close and choppy, like it's a Hunger Game.
Aching with hunger, despite his warnings, Ulysses' companions feed on the meat of the sacred bulls.
I'd rather go to debtor's prison than let my wife die of hunger!
Two men walked and never talked, hunger gnawed their bones.
Desperate with hunger and here it was Thanksgiving Day.
From the pangs of hunger, Big Jim was becoming delirious, hysterical.
The hunger, I had a taste of it.
Famine, hunger. not even massacres could stop them.
We Prussians know how to hunger.
Through discipline and hunger, hunger and discipline we shall be great again.
The degenaration of these people is caused mainly by hunger lack of hygiene, poverty and incest.
If you're scared, it scares the hunger out of you.
He's on a hunger strike.
People are dropping like flies from hunger and cholera.
Oh, yeah, right up there with world hunger.
Hunger and War.
Instead of bread, we'II get hunger and ruin!
Famine, hunger, not even massacres could stop them.
We're on a hunger strike.
Hunger strike?
I was so scared, it scared the hunger.
Now, turn red to tempt Snow White. To make her hunger for a bite.
And death from hunger if I don't.
But, Dad, we will not die of hunger.
Hunger?
Through discipline and hunger, hunger and discipline we shall be great again. Or not at all!
I shall feel my desire becoming flesh. and my hunger taking on the fire of blood.
My hunger shall be appeased for an hour. my hunger that is as old as time.
Hunger strike, eh?
If you're scared,it scares the hunger out of you.
Silks for rags, kindness instead of riches, limitless food instead of hunger.

News and current affairs

NEW YORK - Today's world hunger crisis is unprecedentedly severe and requires urgent measures.
Nearly one billion people are trapped in chronic hunger - perhaps 100 million more than two years ago.
Despite the dedicated efforts of many professionals, the response to the hunger crisis remains utterly inadequate.
Hunger is omnipresent.
Failures of rainfall contribute not only to famines and chronic hunger, but also to the onset of violence when hungry people clash over scarce food and water.
But Darfur, like Tigre, needs a development strategy to fight hunger and drought even more than it needs peacekeepers.
This is especially ironic because African countries like Ethiopia stand steadfastly and bravely with the US in the fight for freedom and against terrorism, even as they struggle with hunger, disease, and famine.
Africans suffering from hunger and drought, and indeed poor people everywhere, have a right to ask much more of the US and other rich countries.
Most of these purchases have been made in Africa, with two-thirds taking place in countries where hunger is widespread and institutions for establishing formal land ownership are often weak.
And some in the US Congress want to cut food stamps - on which some 23 million American households depend, threatening the poorest children with hunger.
Today, however, the real threats to the majority of the world's population stems from dangers almost unknown back then: poverty, hunger, population growth, migration, the environment, and the like.
For every major problem - hunger, illiteracy, malnutrition, malaria, AIDS, drought, and so forth - there are practical solutions that are proven and affordable.
In addition to the massive earthquakes that struck Haiti and Chile, the region has also been shaken by a hunger-strike death in Cuba and a growing crackdown on human rights and opposition in Venezuela.
COPENHAGEN - Despite gains in life expectancy, expanded access to education, and lower rates of poverty and hunger, the world has a long way to go to improve the quality of people's lives.
Spain is taking global leadership in combating hunger by inviting world leaders to Madrid in late January to move beyond words to action.
Hundreds of millions of people, in the meantime, remain trapped in hunger.
History can be made in Madrid at the end of January, when the world's richest and poorest countries converge to seek solutions to the global hunger crisis.
Obviously, the legacy of colonialism - widespread hunger, illiteracy, lack of property or legal recourse, and vulnerability to state violence - is a major factor in their current poverty.
But chronic hunger remains pervasive, particularly in developing countries, which are affected most by crop shortages and food-price volatility.
War and violence often have as underlying causes hunger, poverty, and environmental degradation, such as human-induced climate change.
Likewise, Africa's welcome new determination to fight the war on hunger should serve as a living testament to Borlaug.

Are you looking for...?

hunger stone | hungersome | hungerly | hunger for | hungerless | hungering | hungerful | Hungerford | hungerer | hungered | hunger-strike | hunger after
Wordcyclopedia Gutes Wörterbuch Толстый словарь Dobrý slovník
Sources WordNet, Open Multilingual Wordnet, Wiktionary, Dbnary, Panlex, FreeLing, Tatoeba, OpenSubtitles.org, Project Syndicate, OPUS, Kelly Project, SIL Semantic Domains
Contact info@wordcyclopedia.com
Creative Commons BY-SA