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Hungered

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hun·ger  (hnggr)
n.
1.
a. A strong desire or need for food.
b. The discomfort, weakness, or pain caused by a prolonged lack of food.
2. A strong desire or craving: a hunger for affection.
v. hun·gered, hun·ger·ing, hun·gers
v.intr.
1. To have a need or desire for food.
2. To have a strong desire or craving.
v.tr.
To cause to experience hunger; make hungry.
[Middle English, from Old English hungor.]


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Perhaps she hated Strickland still, but she hungered for him, and everything that had made up her life till then became of no account.
Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
But if you lacked that qualification, and were an hungered, or inclined toward conviviality at unlawful hours, Colette's was your only port.
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Then shall the king say unto him on his left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire: for I was an hungered, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: I was a stranger, an ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: I was sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
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