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ahungered

ahungered adjective: pinched with hunger; very hungry.

Adjective

ahungered (comparative more ahungered, superlative most ahungered)

  1. Pinched with hunger; very hungry.
    • To this extenuated spectre, perhaps, a crumb is not thrown once a year; but when ahungered and athirst to famine—when all humanity has forgotten the dying tenant of a decaying house—Divine Mercy remembers the mourner, […]1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Old Maids”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 264
    • May be my strength on which they lean; / My voice! Oh, may each wanderer heed; / My table those ahungered feed.1907, Helen Elizabeth Coolidge, Poems

Forms of ahungered

comparativemore ahungered
superlativemost ahungered
alternative formanhungered

Origin of ahungered

From Middle English a-hungred, a hungryd, equivalent to a- + hungered.

Questions about ahungered

What does ahungered mean?
Ahungered means pinched with hunger; very hungry.
What part of speech is ahungered?
Ahungered is an adjective.

Words near ahungered in the dictionary

  1. Ahumada
  2. Ahumadas
  3. ahuman
  4. ahun
  5. Ahuna Vairya
  6. ahungered
  7. ahungry
  8. ahunting
  9. ahura
  10. Ahura Mazda
  11. Ahuramazda

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