Hungered

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To endure a strong yearning for nourishment, manifesting as a deep and often uncomfortable need for food
2. To be caught in a state of intense craving that compels one to seek out sustenance or meals
3. Felt an urgent and powerful need to eat due to an empty stomach

Etymology: This is an inflected form, so I'll keep it brief: "hungered" is the simple past and past participle of "hunger", a verb that comes from Old English "hyngran" and "hyngrian", meaning "to be hungry". Those words descend from a Proto-West Germanic root, *hungrijan, which gives the verb its sense of physically needing food. The noun behind it, "hunger", traces back to Old English "hungor", meaning both hunger and desire, and even famine. That broader sense survives in the way English speakers still talk about hunger for power or knowledge. The root reaches far beyond English: Dutch "honger", German "Hunger", and Swedish "hunger" all share it, so the word has been a steady companion of Germanic speakers for well over a thousand years.

Synonyms: starved, craved, yearned, desired, longed

Antonyms: satisfied, full, content, fulfilled, appeased