thirst
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/icons/point.icon LONG, YEARN, HANKER, PINE, HUNGER, THIRST mean to have a strong desire for something.
LONG implies a wishing with one's whole heart and often a striving to attain.
e.g. longed for some rest
YEARN suggests an eager, restless, or painful longing.
e.g. yearned for a stage career
HANKER suggests the uneasy promptings of unsatisfied appetite or desire.
e.g. always hankering for money
PINE implies a languishing or a fruitless longing for what is impossible.
e.g. pined for a lost love
HUNGER and THIRST imply an insistent or impatient craving or a compelling need.
e.g. hungered for a business of his own
e.g. thirsted for power
noun
a feeling of needing or wanting to drink something:
〖単数形で〗喉の渇き
e.g. they quenched their thirst with spring water.
lack of the liquid needed to sustain life:
脱水症状
e.g. tens of thousands died of thirst and starvation.
(usually thirst for) a strong desire for something:
｟文｠ 〖単数形で〗 «…に対する» 渇望, 強い欲望 «for»
e.g. his thirst for knowledge was mainly academic.
verb no object archaic
(of a person or animal) feel a need to drink something.
｟古｠ 喉が渇く
(usually thirst for/thirst after) literary have a strong desire for something:
｟文｠ 〈人が〉 «…を» 切望する «for, after»
e.g. an opponent thirsting for revenge.
ORIGIN
Old English thurst (noun), thyrstan (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch dorst, dorsten and German Durst, dürsten.