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HUNGER

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hunger I. substantiv

1. foame;

to be faint with hunger a leşina de foame, a nu mai putea de foame;

to die of hunger a muri de foame;

(prov.) hunger is the best relish / sauce foamea e cel mai bun bucătar:

2. (for, after) (fig.) sete, dorinţă arzătoare (după, de).

hunger II. verb A. intranzitiv

1. a fi flămând.

2. to hunger for / after smth. a fi avid de ceva;

hungering for romance avid de aventuri sentimentale.

hunger II. verb B. tranzitiv

a înfometa;

to hunger a garrison out of place a constrânge o garnizoană prin foamete să se predea.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

A shepherd’s dog had a master who took no care of him, but often let him suffer the greatest hunger.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

At the same time he was made aware of a sensation of hunger.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

"Thy very strong sons and thine old-age hunger?"

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free; but now we are moved by every wind that blows and a chance word or scene that that word may convey to us.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He was faint from hunger.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

My stomach remains empty, and I must tie myself up if I am not to die of hunger.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

Famine came again, and the cub with clearer consciousness knew once more the bite of hunger.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

Their faces are like the faces of people who have died of hunger, and their cheeks are black with the dead flesh of many freezings.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

But her husband did not care for that, and said she must work, if she did not wish to die of hunger.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

He would lie concealed for hours, following every movement of a cautious tree-squirrel, waiting, with a patience as huge as the hunger he suffered from, until the squirrel ventured out upon the ground.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

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