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.
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He looked at the cake and you could see he was hungering for it.
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The prisoner was consumed with a hunger for freedom.
Dictionary of American idioms.
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