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enhunger

verb

Etymology

From en- + hunger.

  1. derived from *kenk-✻ — “to burn, smart, desire, hunger, thirst”
  2. inherited from *hungruz✻
  3. inherited from *hungr✻
  4. inherited from hungor — “hunger, desire; famine”
  5. inherited from hunger
  6. prefixed as enhunger — “en + hunger”

Definitions

  1. To make hungry.

    • Those animal passions which vice had […] enhungered to feed on innocence and life.
    • 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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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA