Definition of Hungering

1. Verb. (present participle of hunger) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hungering

1. hunger [v] - See also: hunger

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hungering

hungchaoite
hunged
hunger
hunger contractions
hunger is a good sauce
hunger is the best sauce
hunger is the best spice
hunger march
hunger marcher
hunger pain
hunger strike
hunger strikes
hungered
hungerer
hungerers
hungering (current term)
hungeringly
hungerless
hungerly
hungers
hungover
hungred
hungrier
hungriest
hungrily
hungriness
hungrinesses
hungry
hungry(p)
hungry as a hog

Literary usage of Hungering

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Bookman (1907)
"to an appreciation of literature, and which was hungering only after newspapers. This last fact in reality explains the secret of the vogue which Willis had ..."

2. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"THE SOLE-hungering CAMEL A CAMEL, with practical views On the nutritive value of shoes, To the mosque would repair While 'the folks were at prayer, ..."

3. Matthew Paris's English History: From the Year 1235 to 1273 by Matthew Paris, John Allen Giles (1854)
"... as it was necessary for them to do; for he made urgent and imperious demands, like a man hungering after food. ..."

4. A History of the Thirty Years' Peace, A.D. 1816-1846 by Harriet Martineau (1877)
"CHAPTER V. Conduct of the Peers—Peerage Reform—Chartism—Radical Chartists- Tory Chartists—hungering Chartists—Factious Chartists—Orange- ism—Duke of ..."

5. A History of the Thirty Years' Peace, A.D. 1816-1846 by Harriet Martineau, Charles Knight (1877)
"... Chartists— Tory Chartists—hungering Chartists—Factious Chartists—Orange- ism—Duke of Cumberland—Colonel Fairman—Orange Peers—Plot —Action of ..."

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