enhunger

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verb

To make hungry.

“February 1860, Dr. John C. Peters, "The Late Reforms in Pathology and Therapeutics", in Homoepathic Journal such small quantities of food as would enhunger, if not almost starve a hearty person”

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Meanings

verbenhunger (third-person singular simple present enhungers, present participle enhungering, simple past and past participle enhungered)

present singular third person enhungers · participle present enhungering · participle past enhungered · past enhungered

  1. datedliterarytransitiveTo make hungry.

    February 1860, Dr. John C. Peters, "The Late Reforms in Pathology and Therapeutics", in Homoepathic Journal such small quantities of food as would enhunger, if not almost starve a hearty person

    1 more example

    Those animal passions which vice had […] enhungered to feed on innocence and life.

    1836, James Martineau, The Rationale of Religious Enquiry

Origin

From en- + hunger.

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APA

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MLA

“enhunger.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/enhunger. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “enhunger,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/enhunger.

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