n. 25B6; noun
she was faint with hunger : LACK OF FOOD, hungriness, ravenousness, emptiness; starvation, malnutrition, malnourishment, undernourishment.
a hunger for news : DESIRE, craving, longing, yearning, hankering, appetite, thirst; want, need; informal itch, yen.
25A0; hunger after/for DESIRE, crave; long for, yearn for, pine for, ache for, hanker after, thirst for, lust for; want, need; informal have a yen for, itch for, be dying for, be gagging for.