transcription, транскрипция: [ hʌŋgə(r) ]
( hungers, hungering, hungered)
1.
Hunger is the feeling of weakness or discomfort that you get when you need something to eat.
Hunger is the body’s signal that levels of blood sugar are too low...
The nutritionally balanced menus are designed to help you lose up to a pound a day without hunger pangs.
N-UNCOUNT
2.
Hunger is a severe lack of food which causes suffering or death.
Three hundred people in this town are dying of hunger every day.
= starvation
N-UNCOUNT
3.
If you have a hunger for something, you want or need it very much. ( WRITTEN )
Geffen has a hunger for success that seems bottomless.
= craving
N-SING : also no det , with supp , oft N for n
4.
If you say that someone hungers for something or hungers after it, you are emphasizing that they want it very much. ( FORMAL )
But Jules was not eager for classroom learning, he hungered for adventure.
VERB : V for/after n [ emphasis ]