hunger

名词 n. 动词 v.
/ˈhʌŋɡə/|[ˈhʌŋɡə]    /ˈhɐŋɡə/|[ˈhɐ̞ŋɡə]|/ˈhʌŋɡɚ/|[ˈhʌŋɡɚ] ~ [ˈhʌŋɡɹ̩]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A need or compelling desire for food. countable,uncountable
  2. Any strong desire or need. broadly,countable,uncountable
    — I have a hunger to win.
动词 v.
  1. To be in need of food. intransitive
    — Therefore if thine enemie hunger, feed him: if he thirst, giue him drink. For in so doing thou shalt heape coales of fire on his head.
  2. To have a desire (for); to long; to yearn. figuratively,intransitive
    — I hungered for your love.
  3. To make hungry; to famish. archaic,transitive

词形变化

hungers plural hungers present,singular,third-person hungering participle,present hungered participle,past hungered past

词源

词源 1
From Middle English hunger, from Old English hungor (“hunger, desire; famine”), from Proto-West Germanic *hungr, from Proto-Germanic *hungruz, *hunhruz (“hunger”), from Proto-Indo-European *kenk- (“to burn, smart, desire, hunger, thirst”).
Cognate with West Frisian honger, hûnger (“hunger”), Dutch honger (“hunger”), German Low German Hunger (“hunger”), German Hunger (“hunger”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish hunger (“hunger”), Faroese and Icelandic hungur (“hunger”).
词源 2
From Middle English hungren, from Old English hyngran, hyngrian, ġehyngrian (“to be hungry”), from Proto-West Germanic *hungrijan, from Proto-Germanic *hungrijaną.
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