Meanings
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of hunger
comparative more hungered · superlative most hungered
- 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 308–3101 more example
[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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