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Webster 1913 Edition


Ahungered

A-hun′gered

,
Adj.
[Pref.
a-
+
hungered
.]
Pinched with hunger; very hungry.
C. Bronté.

Definition 2024


ahungered

ahungered

English

Adjective

ahungered (comparative more ahungered, superlative most ahungered)

  1. pinched with hunger; very hungry
    • Charlotte Brontë, Shirley
      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 []