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enhunger

enhunger verb: to make hungry.

Verb

enhunger (third-person singular simple present enhungers, present participle enhungering, simple past and past participle enhungered)

  1. (dated, literary, transitive) To make hungry.
    • Those animal passions which vice had […] enhungered to feed on innocence and life.1836, James Martineau, The Rationale of Religious Enquiry
    • 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

Forms of enhunger

third-person singular presentenhungers
present participleenhungering
past participleenhungered
pastenhungered

Origin of enhunger

From en- + hunger.

Questions about enhunger

What does enhunger mean?
Enhunger means to make hungry.
What part of speech is enhunger?
Enhunger is a verb.
What is the past tense of enhunger?
The past tense of enhunger is enhungered.

Words near enhunger in the dictionary

  1. enhorts
  2. enhumble
  3. enhumbled
  4. enhumbles
  5. enhumbling
  6. enhunger
  7. enhungered
  8. enhungering
  9. enhungers
  10. enhydrin
  11. enhydrite

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