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thirst English

Meaning thirst meaning

What does thirst mean?
Definitions in simple English

thirst Noun

— Thirst is the feeling that you want to drink. She took a long drink to ease her thirst. All that work has given me a thirst. — Thirst is the state of not having enough to drink. When the river stopped running, the animals began to die of thirst. During the war, many suffered from hunger and thirst. — If you have a thirst for something, you want a lot of it regularly. Their thirst for knowledge was too much for the small school library.

thirst

— noun a physiological need to drink — noun (= hunger) strong desire for something (not food or drink) a thirst for knowledge hunger for affection — verb feel the need to drink — verb (= crave) have a craving, appetite, or great desire for

Synonyms thirst synonyms

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thirst English » English

hunger thirsty craving thirstiness crave desire be thirsty lust hungriness starve drought yearn thirsting thirst for thirst after starvation longing languish yearning want urgent speech long for hanker for echo dumbness desire to drink be hungry appetite angry

Topics thirst topics

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

Hungry, thirsty
Language and thought

Want

Conjugation thirst conjugation

How do you conjugate thirst?

thirst · verb

Examples thirst examples

How do I use thirst in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Our people thirst for independence.
I'm dying of thirst.
The man died of thirst in a dry country.
I had a glass of beer to quench my thirst.
He satisfied his thirst with a large glass of beer.
Appetite comes with eating, but the thirst goes away with drinking.
I quench my thirst with a cold glass of water.
Thirst is more serious than homesickness.
Does anyone know what it means to die of thirst with the sea right in front of you?
We drown in information but thirst for knowledge.
Sharks are notorious for having a thirst for blood.
She died of thirst during the drought.
Tom was dying of thirst.
Tom had an unusual thirst for knowledge.
This will quench your thirst.
My thirst is quenched.
I'm dying of thirst at the moment.
I'm dying of thirst. Give me water!

Movie subtitles

IN THEIR FRAIL CANOE THROUGH STORMS UNDER A BURNING SKY THIRST-CRAZED AND STARVING.
Can a man dying of thirst forget water?
Did you know what would happen to that thirst if it were denied water?
Oh. For some reason, I've. I've no thirst tonight.
A burning of the lips that isn't thirst. but something 1,000 times more tantalizing, more exalting than thirst.
She never had any understanding of my deep and gorgeous thirst.
There's nothing like a stretch on the rack to raise a thirst.
That's about as useful to a man with a thirst like mine. as silk stockings to a mermaid.
It's better than being captured or dying of thirst.
We'll all die of thirst!
Keeping it back when we're all dying of thirst?
Stay here and die of thirst?
What about when they're starving and dying of thirst?
Tell His Majesty that my thirst is not as great as his tonight.
Her Majesty wishes me to convey that her thirst is not as great as his tonight.
We're dying of thirst.
Choking gives you a thirst.
I believe Phillip's thirst for power. can only be quenched in the English Channel.
He says he has a thirst for knowledge. And he wants to quench it in our swimming pool.
I've got a terrible thirst and nothing to quench it!
Those are good things to write about, hunger and thirst.
A poor cripple dying of hunger and thirst.
He was in agony from thirst.
Did he die of thirst?
When that guy gets a thirst, it's a real emergency.
Thirst for food and tongues for the wise!
He says he has a thirst for knowledge.
We're Hamburg kettle beaters we're working over there at Blohm 'n Voss merry as larks and always proper we chew tobacco and have dreadful thirst.
And die of heat and thirst in that desert?
Wine is for thirst.

News and current affairs

A thirst for knowledge, a delight in engaging with the world, and empathy with people from different cultures are qualities that can ensure diversity in unity, and unity in diversity.
The corruption, the vote-buying, the absurd thirst of soccer bosses for international prestige, the puffed-out chests festooned with medals and decorations - all of that is par for the course.
Here we can be childishly selfish, we can gratify our thirst for success, power and domination - all without guilt.
You can tell Latin Americans or Africans that Asia's unquenchable thirst for natural resources will keep pushing up the prices of their commodity and agricultural exports in perpetuity, turning wheat fields into gold mines.
The thirst for vengeance after the Beslan school massacre makes confrontation between Chechens and Ingushis increasingly possible.
Allowing them to frame these problems in religious terms legitimizes the perspective that they are attempting to impose, particularly in their own societies.It also allows them to camouflage their very worldly thirst for power.
These are crimes so treacherous that any right-minded Russian patriot can only thirst to see such a person subjected to the supreme measure of national retribution.
But this reply fails to deal with the suffering of those who drown in floods, are burned alive in forest fires caused by lightning, or die of hunger or thirst during a drought.
Even if he cuts imports from the Middle East, America will not enjoy energy security unless it curbs its overall thirst for oil.
Because of the mess Mr. Kuchma has made of the economy, our thirst for Russian energy is not matched by an ability to pay the bill for these imports.
And yet, amid all the stories of trauma and loss, what affected me the most was these refugee families' unquenchable thirst for education.
The thirst for technology is not accompanied by an appetite for infection control.
Central Tehran - ebullient with young people and high-heeled women donning testimonial headscarves and mid-thigh jackets over pants - embodies a thirst for openness.
They, too, thirst for freedom.
Yet, even in Palestine, the key water issue is not thirst, but arrested economic development.
It also exposes the dark side of China's growing involvement in Africa, namely that its thirst for oil outweighs humanitarian considerations.
This thirst for unbiased information highlights the dramatic change that the Internet has brought to China's political landscape.
Most Greeks are taking whatever action they can to avoid the government's likely insatiable thirst for higher tax revenues, with wealthy individuals shifting money abroad and ordinary people migrating to the underground economy.
There is nothing incendiary about Charter 08, no call for violent rebellion, no thirst for revenge or retribution.
Many economists, including myself, believe that America's thirst for foreign capital to finance its consumption binge played a critical role in the build-up of the crisis.
Relatively prosperous Europeans tend not to purchase a car merely to get from point A to point B, shoes to keep their feet dry, a watch just to tell the time, or a bottle of water only to quench their thirst.
They are China's last pristine rivers, but are now slated for sacrifice to satisfy the country's insatiable thirst for power.
The answer is to curb America's thirst for oil rather than increasing imports.
Even so, a major decline in America's thirst for oil is not out of the question in the longer term.

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