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a need or desire for food
- no degree of hunger would induce me to eat octopus
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a strong wish for something
- a lonely girl with a desperate hunger for love
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urgent desire or interest
- reads everything he can find on airplanes with a seemingly insatiable hunger
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“Hunger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hunger. Accessed 12 May. 2021.
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