hungered

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adjective

hungry; in need of food.

UncommonScrabble 13

Meanings

verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of hunger
adjectivehungered (comparative more hungered, superlative most hungered)

comparative more hungered · superlative most hungered

  1. obsoletehungry; in need of food.

    [...] nor hunger felt / Till thoſe days ended, hunger'd then at lasſt / Among wild Beaſts […]

    1671, John Milton, “The First Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 17, lines 308–310
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    [Our recruits] have much oftener an hungered and shabby appearance than a gaunty or reckless aspect. Many of them have no strong ties of affection or bright hopes in life.

    1865, Colburn's United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal, page 2
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