vt to have a thirst for.
2. thirst ·noun to have a vehement desire.
3. thirst ·noun to feel thirst; to experience a painful or uneasy sensation of the throat or fauces, as for want of drink.
4. thirst ·noun fig.: a want and eager desire after anything; a craving or longing;
usually with for, of, or after; as, the thirst for gold.
5. thirst ·noun a sensation of dryness in the throat associated with a craving for liquids, produced by deprivation of drink, or by some other cause (as fear, excitement, ·etc.) which arrests the secretion of the pharyngeal mucous membrane; hence, the condition producing this sensation.