from hunger

noun

1. a compelling need or desire for food.
2. the painful sensation or state of weakness caused by the need of food: to collapse from hunger.
3. a shortage of food; famine.
4. a strong or compelling desire or craving: hunger for power.

verb (used without object)

5. to feel hunger; be hungry.
6. to have a strong desire.

verb (used with object)

7. Rare. to subject to hunger; starve.

Idioms

8. from hunger, Slang. deplorably bad; dreadful: The styles in coats this winter are from hunger.Also strictly from hunger.

noun

1. a feeling of pain, emptiness, or weakness induced by lack of food
2. an appetite, desire, need, or cravinghunger for a woman

verb

3. to have or cause to have a need or craving for food
4. (intr; usually foll by for or after) to have a great appetite or desire (for)

n.

Old English hungor “unease or pain caused by lack of food, craving appetite, debility from lack of food,” from Proto-Germanic *hungruz (cf. Old Frisian hunger, Old Saxon hungar, Old High German hungar, Old Norse hungr, German hunger, Dutch honger, Gothic huhrus), probably from PIE root *kenk- (2) “to suffer hunger or thirst.” Hunger strike attested from 1885; earliest references are to prisoners in Russia.

v.

Old English hyngran (cf. Old Saxon gihungrjan, Old High German hungaran, German hungern, Gothic huggrjan), from the source of hunger (n.). Related: Hungered; hungering.

n.

1. A strong desire or need for food.
2. The discomfort, weakness, or pain caused by a prolonged lack of food.
3. A strong desire or craving, as for affection.