3 entries under this word
[A-S. hungur, hungor, hunger, O. Sax. & O. H. Ger. hunger, Icel. hungr, O. Fries., Sw., Dan., & N. H. Ger. hunger, D. honger, Goth. huhus, hunger, hugjan, to hunger.]
Sense 1. An uneasy sensation occasioned normally by the want of food; a craving or desire for food.
Sense 2. Any strong or eager desire.
O sacred hunger of ambitious minds! Spenser. For hunger of my gold I die. Dryden.
v. i. [imp. & p. p. HUNGERED; p. pr. & vb. n. HUNGERING.] [A-S. hungorian, hyngerian, O. Sax. hungrian, hingrian, O. Fries. hungera, Icel. hungra, O. H. Ger. hungarôn, hungaran, N. H. Ger. hungern.]
Sense 1. To feel the pain or uneasiness which is occasioned by long abstinence from food; to crave food.
Sense 2. To desire with great eagerness; to long for.
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness. Matt. v. 6.
v. t. To make hungry; to famish.
When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungered. Matt. iv. 2.