| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To wish.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To lust or desire.[Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Present participle conjugation of the verb hunger.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (hunger) | 1. Feel the need to eat.[Wordnet]. 2. Have a craving, appetite, or great desire for.[Wordnet]. 3. Be hungry; go without food.[Wordnet]. 4. To make hungry; to famish.[Websters]. 5. To feel the craving or uneasiness occasioned by want of food; to be oppressed by hunger.[Websters]. 6. To have an eager desire; to long.[Websters]. 7. Base verb from the following inflections: hungering, hungered, hungers, hungerer, hungerers, hungeringly and hungeredly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "HUNGERING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Specialty Definition: HUNGERING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Feeling the uneasiness of want of food; desiring eagerly; longing for; craving.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of hunger. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: hunger
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| 1981 Irish Hunger Strike | The 1981 Irish Hunger Strike was a campaign by Irish republican prisoners in Northern Ireland for the British government to grant them political status. It was a seminal event in modern Irish history. It radicalised nationalist politics, and was the midwife to Sinn Féin as a serious political force, which ultimately led to it overtaking the SDLP as the main nationalist party in Northern Ireland. (references) | ||
| Earth hunger | An intense desire to own land, or, in the case of nations, to extend their domain. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Hunger Artists Theatre Company | Founded in 1996 by a group of longtime friends, The Hunger Artists Theatre Company is the first Orange County-based alternative theater to grow out of Orange Coast College's Repertory Theater. While at Coast, the future members of The Hunger Artists honed their craft as actors, directors, playwrights and technicians, while developing the hip, smart, irreverent attitude and subversive theatrical sensibility that would later earn them notice as one of the county's most adventurous and unpredictable small theater companies. (references) | ||
| Hunger circus | Part of Nicolae CeauÅŸescu's program of systematization during his period as ruler of Romania was the construction of a series of buildings now universally known in Romania as "hunger circuses" or "circuses of hunger" (in Romanian, "circurile foamei" or "circuri ale foamei"). (references) | ||
| Hunger march | A march of protest or demonstration by the unemployed. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Hunger marcher | An unemployed person who participates in a hunger march. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Hunger strike | A voluntary fast undertaken as a means of protest. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Hunger strike | A hunger strike is a method of non-violent resistance in which participants fast as an act of political protest or to achieve a goal such as a policy change. (references) | ||
| Irish Hunger Memorial | The Irish Hunger Memorial is located in the neighborhood of Battery Park City in New York City (USA), and is dedicated to raising awareness of the Irish potato famine that killed millions in Ireland between the years 1845 and 1852. The memorial was dedicated on July 16, 2002. It is a uniquely landscaped plot, which utilizes stones, soil, and native vegetation brought in from the western coast of Ireland. The memorial also incorporates an authentically recreated Irish cottage of the 19th century. (references) | ||
| Power hunger | A drive to acquire power. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Saint Hunger | Hunger was Bishop of Utrecht from 854 to 866. (references) | ||
| The Great Hunger | A famine in Ireland resulting from a potato blight; between 1846 and 1851 a million people starved to death and 1.6 million emigrated (most to America). Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| The Hunger Project | The Global Hunger Project describes itself as "a global, strategic organization committed to the sustainable end of world hunger". In Africa, Asia and Latin America, the Hunger Project has the stated intent of empowering grassroots people to achieve lasting progress in health, education, nutrition and family income. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: hunger
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Hunger / Food insecurity | Agriculture | An economic definition is the lack of food due to the limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods, or limited or uncertain ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways. The USDA, in 1997, estimated that about 12% of US households suffer from food insecurity. (references) | |
| Hunger pain | Medicine | Pain coming on at the time for feeling hunger for the next meal: a symptom of gastric disorder. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Hunger Prevention Act of 1988 | Agriculture | P. L. 100-435 (September 19, 1988) amended the Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 to require the USDA to make additional types of commodities available for the Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP), to improve the child nutrition and food stamp programs, and to provide other hunger relief. (references) | |
| Hunger seasons Food | Literature | 1: "Optimum condimentum fames." (Socrates.) 2: "Manet hodieque vulgo tritum proverbium: Famem efficere ut crudae etiam fabae saccharium sapiant." (Erasmus.) 3: "Hunger is good kitchen meat." 4: "L'appétit assaisonne tout." 5: "Il n'y a sauce que d'appétit." 6: "The full soul loatheth a honey-comb." (Prov. xxvii. 7.) 7: "Plenty makes dainty." 8: French: - 9: English: - 10: "Hunger is the best sauce." 11: "L'appétit assaisonne tout." 12: Latin: - 13: "Optimum tibi condimentum est fames, potionis sitis." Cicero. 14: Italian: - 15: "La fame e il miglior intingolo." 16: "Appetito non vuol salsa." 17: The contrary: - 18: "It must be a delicate dish to tempt the o'ergorged appetite." (Southey.) 19: "He who is not hungry is a fastidious eater." (Spanish.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
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