hunger
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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 discomfort or weakness caused by lack of food, coupled with the desire to eat:
空腹感
e.g. she was faint with hunger.
a severe lack of food:
飢え, 飢餓, ひもじさ(starvation)
e.g. they died from cold and hunger.
a strong desire or craving:
｟かたく｠ 〖具体例では可算〗 «…への» 熱望, あこがれ, 渇望 «for»
e.g. her hunger for knowledge.
verb no object
1. (hunger after/hunger for) have a strong desire or craving for:
«…を/…することを» 熱望［渇望］する «for, after/to do»
e.g. all actors hunger for such a role.
2. archaic feel or suffer hunger through lack of food.
｟古｠ 飢える, 腹がすく
ORIGIN
Old English hungor (noun), hyngran (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch honger and German Hunger.