Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as ahungered.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Archaic Ahungered; longing.

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  • adjective obsolete Hungry.

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Examples

  • We know that the need of the anhungered for the one friend, one com rade, one mate, is good.

    The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

  • Then I abode three days in Baghdad, without tasting meat or drink, and on the fourth day seeing a ship bound for Bassorah, I took passage in her of the owner, and when we reached our port, I landed and went into the bazar, being sore anhungered.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • He made me sit down at its upper end; then he brought me somewhat of food and, being anhungered, I ate till I was satisfied and refreshed; and when he had put me at mine ease he questioned me of myself, and I told him all that had befallen me from first to last; and, as he wondered at my adventure, I said, By Allah,

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Quoth the Ghul, “Jamrkan slew him, captain of the armies of King Gharib, Prince of cavaliers, and I roasted and ate him, for I was anhungered.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Quoth he, ‘I am a stranger and anhungered;’ and they signed to him, as to say, ‘Eat and drink, but speak not.’

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Accordingly he entered and Kamar al-Zaman knew him and told his sire who said, “O my son, leave him at this present: belike he is anhungered: so let him eat his sufficiency and recover himself and after we will send for him.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • And he ceased not faring on many days and nights, tearful-eyed and heavy-hearted; eating, when he was anhungered, of the growth of the ground and drinking, when he thirsted, of its streams, till he came in sight of the Castle of the lord Solomon and saw Shaykh Nasr sitting at the gate.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • "Lady," said he, "the sorer grief is ours, for we are so anhungered, that for a little our souls would leave our bodies."

    French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France Marie de France

  • The bird was all anhungered for food, and remembering well the home from which he drew, he returned thither as quickly as his wings might bear him.

    French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France Marie de France

  • I am anhungered, and a halt at thy table will throw dust in the eyes of thy slaves.

    "Unto Caesar" Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906

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