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enhungering

enhungering is the present participle and gerund of enhunger.

Meaning of enhunger

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

Questions about enhungering

What is enhungering the present participle and gerund of?
Enhungering is the present participle and gerund of enhunger.

Words near enhungering in the dictionary

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

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