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  • 61starved — Synonyms and related words: aching for, attenuated, bare handed, beggarly, cadaverous, corpselike, craving, deprived of, desirous of, dog hungry, dying for, emacerated, emaciate, emaciated, empty, empty handed, famished, famishing, fasting,… …

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  • 62thirsty — Synonyms and related words: Saharan, absorbent, adsorbent, agog, anhydrous, anxious, ardent, arid, assimilative, athirst, avaricious, avid, bibulous, blotting, bone dry, breathless, burning, chemisorptive, chemosorptive, consumed with desire,… …

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  • 63unfilled — Synonyms and related words: abandoned, available, deserted, dog hungry, empty, famished, famishing, fasting, forsaken, free, godforsaken, half famished, half starved, hungering, hungry, open, peckish, pinched with hunger, ravening, ravenous,… …

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  • 64voracious — Synonyms and related words: Apician, a hog for, acquisitive, all devouring, ardent, avaricious, avid, bolting, bottomless, cormorant, coveting, covetous, cramming, crapulent, crapulous, desirous, devoted, devouring, dog hungry, eager, earnest,… …

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  • 65wolfish — Synonyms and related words: Draconian, Tartarean, all devouring, all engulfing, animal, anthropophagous, atrocious, barbaric, barbarous, beastly, bestial, bloodsucking, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody minded, brutal, brutalized, brute, brutish,… …

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  • 66famished — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. starving, hungering, starved; see hungry . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. starving, hungry, deprived, ravenous, *hungry enough to eat a horse. ANT.: satiated III (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Desiring or craving… …

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  • 67wishing — (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. hoping, yearning, deSiring, craving, pining, thirsting, hungering, wanting, longing …

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  • 68hunger — hun|ger1 [ˈhʌŋgə US ər] n [: Old English; Origin: hungor] 1.) [U] lack of food, especially for a long period of time, that can cause illness or death = ↑starvation die of/from hunger ▪ Thousands of people are dying from hunger every day. 2.) [U]… …

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  • 69hunger — (n.) O.E. hungor unease or pain caused by lack of food, craving appetite, debility from lack of food, from P.Gmc. *hungruz (Cf. O.Fris. hunger, O.S. hungar, O.H.G. hungar, O.N. hungr, Ger. hunger, Du. honger, Goth. huhrus), probably from PIE root …

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  • 70hunger — [[t]hʌ̱ŋgə(r)[/t]] hungers, hungering, hungered 1) N UNCOUNT 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... Seized by morning… …

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