hunger

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A need or compelling desire for food.
2. (broadly, countable, uncountable)Any strong desire or need.

   “I have a hunger to win.”

   “O sacred hunger of ambitious minds!”

   “When gangsters bump my shit, can they feel my hunger?”

   “Putin's unwillingness to declare another partial reserve call up has created a wider manpower hunger in the Russian military and border service, and Putin alone maintains the ability to remedy this issue.”

verb

1. (intransitive)To be in need of food.

   “Therefore if thine enemie hunger, feed him: if he thirst, giue him drink. For in so doing thou shalt heape coales of fire on his head.”

2. (figuratively, intransitive)To have a desire (for); to long; to yearn.

   “I hungered for your love.”

   “Blessed are they which doe hunger and thirst after righteousnesse: for they shall be filled.”

   “In our lives we hunger for those we cannot touch.”

3. (archaic, transitive)To make hungry; to famish.