(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).
Hungry
Definition:
(superl.) Feeling hunger; having a keen appetite; feeling uneasiness or distress from want of food; hence, having an eager desire.
(superl.) Showing hunger or a craving desire; voracious.
(superl.) Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved; as, a hungry soil.
Example Sentences:
(1) A considerably greater increase in the peak plasma OT concentration resulted when hungry foster litters of 6 pups were suckled after the mothers' own 6 pups had been suckled.
(2) As a strategy to reach hungry schoolchildren, and increase domestic food production, household incomes and food security in deprived communities, the GSFP has become a very popular programme with the Ghanaian public, and enjoys solid commitment from the government.
(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) They are hungry for training, education, youth clubs, arts and sports opportunities, and mentoring advice.
(5) When asked if climate scientists get sick of being asked about records by headline hungry media, he graciously laughed, and said: "For a particular month there is very little significance.
(6) Some people say that anyone who wants to help homeless, hungry people should just make a financial donation to an established charity.
(7) We Libyans are just as hungry for a just and accountable government as our Tunisian brothers and sisters.
(8) Stevan Jovetic is hungry for more after his match-winning double strike for Manchester City against Liverpool.
(9) The relationship of the "digestive" and "hungry" electrical activities of the duodenum depended both on the compared type of potential and on the compared time periods.
(10) In addition, baseline levels of neural activity in attack suppressing brain areas prior to any brain stimulation were found to decrease when the cats were hungry and killing was facilitated and neural activity increased when the cats were on ad lib.
(11) Everyone's hungry and cold, they wouldn't even let people go to the toilet.
(12) These are all countries with people who go hungry but, were humanitarian need the only criterion for giving food aid, you might expect to see more countries from west Africa higher on the list, points out Rob Bailey, a fellow at Chatham House.
(13) He was hungry, he was cold, he couldn’t carry on – what else could we do?” She stops for a second, and leans down to caress Vito at her feet.
(14) Hungry but previously "prepared" for winter fleas lived at a temperature from 0 to 2 degrees not more than 376 days.
(15) But he added: “Whilst it is being rolled out, we must have the data to allow us to hold the DWP [Department for Work and Pensions] to account and suggest where improvements can be made.” Scrooge is at large on our hungry streets | Letters Read more The committee said it had been difficult to hold the department to account on benefit delays because of a lack of available data on the timeliness and accuracy of benefits for some disabled people and short-term benefit advance applications.
(16) Justin Welby said that it was “a tragedy” that hunger still existed in the UK in the 21st century and praised the work of charity food banks which he said were “striving to make life bearable for people who are going hungry”.
(17) The offering of food to the hungry animal, and subsequent brief feeding periods, were associated with marked accentuation of this theta activity.
(18) The samples from recently fed animals contained 28% less serotonin than those from hungry ones.
(19) The Trussell Trust has provided through its network of food banks emergency assistance for over 500,000 people since 2013 who are in financial crisis, who are going hungry who have been referred by more than 23,000 different professionals holding vouchers.
(20) There is of course a case for ensuring that children do not go hungry and thus lack concentration.