Hunger
noun
A strong desire or need for food.
She felt a sharp pang of hunger
Often appears as...
- feel a pang of hunger
- die from hunger
noun
A strong desire or need for something other than food.
He has a hunger for success
Often appears as...
- hunger for knowledge
- hunger for success
verb
To have a strong desire or need for food.
He was hungering for a place to sleep
Often appears as...
- hunger for food
- hunger for a meal
verb
To have a strong desire or need for something other than food.
She hungers for approval
Often appears as...
- hunger for approval
- hunger for recognition
noun
A strong desire or need for food.
She felt a sharp pang of hunger
Often appears as...
- feel a pang of hunger
- die from hunger
noun
A strong desire or need for something other than food.
He has a hunger for success
Often appears as...
- hunger for knowledge
- hunger for success
verb
To have a strong desire or need for food.
He was hungering for a place to sleep
Often appears as...
- hunger for food
- hunger for a meal
verb
To have a strong desire or need for something other than food.
She hungers for approval
Often appears as...
- hunger for approval
- hunger for recognition
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Intensity Variation
The word 'hunger' can express different levels of need for food, from mild to severe.
Despite having a light lunch, by evening her hunger had become unbearable.
Pro Tip 2/3Metaphorical Use
'Hunger' can be used metaphorically to describe a powerful need or urge in various situations.
After hours of work without a break, the entire team felt a hunger to finish the project.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Just Physical
While primarily physical, 'hunger' can also convey an emotional emptiness or longing.
They shared their stories, a testament to the hunger for human connection.
Pro Tip 1/3Intensity Variation
The word 'hunger' can express different levels of need for food, from mild to severe.
Despite having a light lunch, by evening her hunger had become unbearable.
Pro Tip 2/3Metaphorical Use
'Hunger' can be used metaphorically to describe a powerful need or urge in various situations.
After hours of work without a break, the entire team felt a hunger to finish the project.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Just Physical
While primarily physical, 'hunger' can also convey an emotional emptiness or longing.
They shared their stories, a testament to the hunger for human connection.
Pro Tip 1/3Intensity Variation
The word 'hunger' can express different levels of need for food, from mild to severe.
Despite having a light lunch, by evening her hunger had become unbearable.
Pro Tip 2/3Metaphorical Use
'Hunger' can be used metaphorically to describe a powerful need or urge in various situations.
After hours of work without a break, the entire team felt a hunger to finish the project.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Just Physical
While primarily physical, 'hunger' can also convey an emotional emptiness or longing.
They shared their stories, a testament to the hunger for human connection.
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Video examples
Obesity + Hunger = 1...
try to address these security issues through food security issues and while I was there I came across what I think is the most brilliant of their programs it's called school feeding it's a really simple idea to sort of get in the middle of the cycle of poverty and hunger that continues for a lot of people around the world and stop it by giving kids a free school meal it gets them into school
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Ellen Gustafson: Obesity...
There, I came across what I think is the most brilliant of their programs. It's called School Feeding and it's a really simple idea to get in the middle of the cycle of poverty and hunger that continues for a lot of people around the world, and stop it. A free school meal gets kids into school, which is education, the first step out of poverty,
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Josette Sheeran: Ending...
if they think about hunger, they don't have to go far back on their own family history -- maybe in their own lives, or their parents' lives, or their grandparents' lives -- to remember an experience of hunger. I rarely find an audience where people can go back very far without that experience.
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Upgrading management...
and tools the results is an epidemic that isn't getting nearly enough attention now over the next few days we're going to hear about some of humanity's most important and complex issues and whether your issue is climate change world hunger education or anything else I'm going to propose that
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How does your body know...
they trigger the pancreas to release insulin. Insulin stimulates the body's fat cells to make another hormone called leptin. Leptin reacts with receptors on neuron populations in the hypothalamus. The hypothalamus has two sets of neurons important for our feeling of hunger.
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The surprising reason...
passing near an important area of pain processing. Second, cytokines travel through the body to the hypothalamus, the part of the brain responsible for controlling temperature, thirst, hunger, and sleep, among other things. When it receives this message,
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My failed mission to...
No one asked for answers to the big existential questions or for proof of God or the meaning of life like I had set out to find. They didn't even ask for an end to war or global hunger. Even when they could have asked for absolutely anything,
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The art of the metaphor...
Those splinters and tacks feel real, they hurt your own feet and your own heart, but the mother is describing her life here, not her actual house. And hunger, and cold, exhausting work and poverty are what's also inside those splinters.
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Can Fashion Be...
is suffocating because of our increasing desire for fast fashion and most of the industry still supports this making it one of the world's biggest polluters our hunger for fast fashion is pushing
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VA Finalist PIPE National...
learning world hunger issue and I were to hypothetically be Clint
Video examples
Obesity + Hunger = 1...
try to address these security issues through food security issues and while I was there I came across what I think is the most brilliant of their programs it's called school feeding it's a really simple idea to sort of get in the middle of the cycle of poverty and hunger that continues for a lot of people around the world and stop it by giving kids a free school meal it gets them into school
Video examples
Ellen Gustafson: Obesity...
There, I came across what I think is the most brilliant of their programs. It's called School Feeding and it's a really simple idea to get in the middle of the cycle of poverty and hunger that continues for a lot of people around the world, and stop it. A free school meal gets kids into school, which is education, the first step out of poverty,
Video examples
Josette Sheeran: Ending...
if they think about hunger, they don't have to go far back on their own family history -- maybe in their own lives, or their parents' lives, or their grandparents' lives -- to remember an experience of hunger. I rarely find an audience where people can go back very far without that experience.
Video examples
Upgrading management...
and tools the results is an epidemic that isn't getting nearly enough attention now over the next few days we're going to hear about some of humanity's most important and complex issues and whether your issue is climate change world hunger education or anything else I'm going to propose that
Video examples
How does your body know...
they trigger the pancreas to release insulin. Insulin stimulates the body's fat cells to make another hormone called leptin. Leptin reacts with receptors on neuron populations in the hypothalamus. The hypothalamus has two sets of neurons important for our feeling of hunger.
Video examples
The surprising reason...
passing near an important area of pain processing. Second, cytokines travel through the body to the hypothalamus, the part of the brain responsible for controlling temperature, thirst, hunger, and sleep, among other things. When it receives this message,
Video examples
My failed mission to...
No one asked for answers to the big existential questions or for proof of God or the meaning of life like I had set out to find. They didn't even ask for an end to war or global hunger. Even when they could have asked for absolutely anything,
Video examples
The art of the metaphor...
Those splinters and tacks feel real, they hurt your own feet and your own heart, but the mother is describing her life here, not her actual house. And hunger, and cold, exhausting work and poverty are what's also inside those splinters.
Video examples
Can Fashion Be...
is suffocating because of our increasing desire for fast fashion and most of the industry still supports this making it one of the world's biggest polluters our hunger for fast fashion is pushing
Video examples
VA Finalist PIPE National...
learning world hunger issue and I were to hypothetically be Clint
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Jeff Bridges
American Actor
I first got involved with ending world hunger, and I got hip to the facts about it - what a huge problem it was and how it wasn't a matter of not having food or not knowing how to end it, but it was a matter of creating the political will.
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Gino D'Acampo
Italian Chef
Italy is a hot country. Wherever you feel heat, your excitement and passion come out. We're hot-blooded, and where there's passion there's love, but also anger, hunger, excitement.
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Yelawolf
American Musician
Yela' represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. 'Wolf' speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.
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Harley Viera-Newton
American Model
My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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Joseph Butler
English Clergyman
Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.
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Les Brown
American Speaker
If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
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Ertharin Cousin
American Public Servant
When you're providing emergency aid, you're fighting hunger; you're filling stomachs.
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Hilary Knight
American Athlete
Just having the hunger to continue to learn motivates me.
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Nadine Gordimer
South African Novelist
Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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Michael Leunig
Australian Cartoonist
Humanity hungers for the uncommon.
Quote examples
Jeff Bridges
American Actor
I first got involved with ending world hunger, and I got hip to the facts about it - what a huge problem it was and how it wasn't a matter of not having food or not knowing how to end it, but it was a matter of creating the political will.
Quote examples
Gino D'Acampo
Italian Chef
Italy is a hot country. Wherever you feel heat, your excitement and passion come out. We're hot-blooded, and where there's passion there's love, but also anger, hunger, excitement.
Quote examples
Yelawolf
American Musician
Yela' represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. 'Wolf' speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.
Quote examples
Harley Viera-Newton
American Model
My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
Quote examples
Joseph Butler
English Clergyman
Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.
Quote examples
Les Brown
American Speaker
If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
Quote examples
Ertharin Cousin
American Public Servant
When you're providing emergency aid, you're fighting hunger; you're filling stomachs.
Quote examples
Hilary Knight
American Athlete
Just having the hunger to continue to learn motivates me.
Quote examples
Nadine Gordimer
South African Novelist
Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
Quote examples
Michael Leunig
Australian Cartoonist
Humanity hungers for the uncommon.
Example 1 of 10
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