hunger for someone or something

hunger for someone or something
hunger for someone or something
to desire someone or something; to yearn for someone or something. •

I hunger for you. I want you madly.

He looked at the cake and you could see he was hungering for it.

The prisoner was consumed with a hunger for freedom.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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