Meanings
comparative more ahungered · superlative most ahungered · alternative anhungered
- Pinched with hunger; very hungry.
May be my strength on which they lean; / My voice! Oh, may each wanderer heed; / My table those ahungered feed.
1907, Helen Elizabeth Coolidge, Poems1 more example
To this extenuated spectre, perhaps, a crumb is not thrown once a year; but when ahungered and athirst to famine—when all humanity has forgotten the dying tenant of a decaying house—Divine Mercy remembers the mourner, […]
1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Old Maids”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 264
Origin
- Middle Englisha-hungred
- Englishahungered
From Middle English a-hungred, a hungryd, equivalent to a- + hungered.
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