What's the difference between affamish and hunger?

Affamish


Definition:

  • (v. t. & i.) To afflict with, or perish from, hunger.

Example Sentences:

Hunger


Definition:

  • (n.) An uneasy sensation occasioned normally by the want of food; a craving or desire for food.
  • (n.) Any strong eager desire.
  • (n.) To feel the craving or uneasiness occasioned by want of food; to be oppressed by hunger.
  • (n.) To have an eager desire; to long.
  • (v. t.) To make hungry; to famish.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was the ease with which minor debt could slide into a tangle of hunger and despair.
  • (2) As shown in Rethinking School Feeding , a joint analysis conducted by the World Bank , World Food Programme and Partnership for Child Development , hunger restricts education.
  • (3) It is right that the food banks feed those who would otherwise go hungry, offering a picture of a different kind of economy, though they can do little to address the causes of hunger.
  • (4) What I didn't know was how much hunger there was in the audience to see themselves on television.
  • (5) The analysis of the causes of hunger current in the 1970's can be summarized somewhat brutally as follows.
  • (6) Experiments in which this method has been applied to the measurement of hunger and thirst in doves are outlined, and the results are discussed in terms of their implications for motivation theory in general.
  • (7) This suggests that brain 5-HT may influence primarily the induction of satiety rather than the suppression of hunger.
  • (8) In the experiments the animals' reactions to various conditions of temperature, air O2 and CO2 content, fatigue and hunger, were tested.
  • (9) And 96% of our grants go to African organisations, universities, scientists and small businesses to achieve a single goal: reduce hunger and poverty on our continent by unleashing the potential of the millions of small, family farmers who are the backbone of African agriculture and African economies.
  • (10) Varied clinical observations of the presence of either hunger or anorexia during intragastric or intravenous alimentation have led to the current experiments.
  • (11) It is concluded that at the first central synapse of the taste system of the primate, neural responsiveness is not influenced by the normal transition from hunger to satiety.
  • (12) An attempt is made to explain this finding, together with their previously-demonstrated enhanced hunger drive, purely in terms of gross anatomical and physiological differences.
  • (13) After the lesion in the VTA the reaction of rats became independent of the level of hunger--the number of their crossings was similar at different levels of hunger.
  • (14) Although high-intensity sweeteners are widely used to decrease the energy density of foods, little is known about how this affects hunger and food intake.
  • (15) As current aid levels stand, the first Millennium Development Goal to halve the number of people who suffer from hunger would "slip through its [DfID's] fingers and further out of reach", says the report, which opens with a message from Boyzone singer Ronan Keating, a UN FAO goodwill ambassador.
  • (16) Like domestic animals, the latter died of hunger probably, any corpse or carcass being considered as plague victims.
  • (17) Money was tight and hunger was a constant companion.
  • (18) 72-hour hunger test did not precipitate any spontaneous hypoglycaemia.
  • (19) Seven obese and seven nonobese male undergraduates were videotaped as they ate four dinner meals, two low and two high in preference, under low and high hunger conditions.
  • (20) French journalists from Paris Match magazine and Le Parisien spoke to Trierweiler, 48, during her two-day visit to India at the weekend for the humanitarian organisation Action Contre La Faim (Action against Hunger).

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