(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).
Hunker
Definition:
(n.) Originally, a nickname for a member of the conservative section of the Democratic party in New York; hence, one opposed to progress in general; a fogy.
Example Sentences:
(1) They advised people living near the beach to retreat upstairs and hunker down in rooms away from the sea.
(2) She hunkered; she wouldn't ask him to turn up the heating.
(3) "It's all too easy to hunker down and try to ride out the storm but I think for our business that would be a mistake," Darroch said, referring to Sky's HD push.
(4) He would spend days and nights hunkered down in his small uptown Dallas apartment pouring through troves of hacked documents, writing blog posts about US government intelligence contractors and their "misplaced power" while working to garner wider media coverage.
(5) I grit my teeth as the trees hunker down smaller and smaller, then finally give up entirely, leaving us alone in a barren upland area where there is one large grey house partially obscured by torn curtains of freezing rain.
(6) On Wednesday, his father Ray told the Guardian: “CCHQ’s supposedly impartial investigation, conducted not by an independent person but by a party ‘insider’, was always going to cast Clarke adrift and having done this was going to slam the doors of CCHQ shut and hunker down in an attempt to weather the storm.
(7) The success of the operation to remove melted nuclear fuel from the reactors – a process that will not start for 10 years – will depend on the hundreds of Tepco staff hunkered over computer screens in the plant's emergency control room.
(8) There is no comment on current trading, but it is clear that the carpet market is "challenging" and the suspicion remains that Carpetright's market share is under pressure, so the business is hunkering down for another tough year, with cost cutting and store closures in the pipeline.
(9) 12.06pm BST The Institute of Directors doesn't like the sound of British politicians blocking takeovers 'in the national interest'... Jess Brammar (@jessbrammar) IoD: "misleading to present AstraZeneca as kind of UK champion...IoD doesn't support extension of any national interest test for takeovers" May 2, 2014 11.45am BST Pfizer and AstraZeneca will hunker down for a long tussle, predicts Mick Cooper, analyst at Edison Investment Research.
(10) With the eurogroup due to meet again next Monday, the financial markets are hunkering down for another delay - but still hopeful that a deal will eventually be agreed.
(11) Hardly anyone, that is, save their quarry: Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán and his lieutenants, hunkered down in a white house just off the corner of Jiquilpan Boulevard, sensed a trap was about to spring shut.
(12) Arrive early or midweek, to hunker down by the fire and drink in these wood-panelled rooms.
(13) The consequences of hunkering down and seeing this as an individual problem will be that it simply worsens and affects more individuals; before innovation, it will take collectivism – medical, political and social.
(14) You saw David Attenborough , hunkered down on an ice floe somewhere near Svalbard, an archipelago in the Arctic.
(15) "Where communities are already divided along ethnic lines, there is of course a tendency to hunker down," says Rob Berkeley, director of the Runnymede Trust, which researches issues of race and equality.
(16) As long as I've got somewhere to hunker down then I'm OK." The appeal of the house in the country, she says, is that "I can hide there."
(17) As the three party leaders hunkered down for final preparations ahead of the Sky News debate in Bristol, Lib Dem nerves were frayed when Vince Cable , the party's highly regarded Treasury spokesman, was put on the back foot for possibly the first time during a chancellors' debate on the BBC.
(18) This is an outbreak that needs tackling at source, and to change the course of the crisis, we mustn’t simply hunker down in developed nations.
(19) All its people can do when evening falls is to close the windows and hunker down around candles.
(20) They while away the day munching snacks, checking phones, posing artfully with cigarettes or hunkering down on folding stools.