hunger

Definition

  • noun: a very great need for food
  • noun: a craving or urgent need for food or a specific nutrient
  • verb: to have or feel a strong desire
  • verb: to feel or suffer hunger
  • usually + 'after' or 'for'
  • synonyms: long, famish, starve

Examples

  • Thousands of people there are 'dying from/of hunger'. [=dying because they do not have enough food; starving to death]

  • She has threatened to 'go on a hunger strike' [=refuse to eat] if her colleagues are not released from prison.

  • The film's scenery is beautiful, but the plot is (strictly) 'from hunger'.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) All she gets is filthy Orcses. And they doesn't taste very nice, does they, precious? No. Not very nice at all, my love. She hungers for sweeter meats. Hobbit meat. And when she throws away the bones and the empty clothes... ...then we will find it. And take it for me! (..)
    2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King