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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

enhunger en · VERB

Etymology

From en- + hunger.

Meanings

  1. (dated, literary, transitive) To make hungry.
    • February 1860, Dr. John C. Peters, "The Late Reforms in Pathology and Therapeutics", in Homoepathic Journal such small quantities of food as would enhunger, if not almost starve a hearty person
    • Those animal passions which vice had […] enhungered to feed on innocence and life. 1836, James Martineau, The Rationale of Religious Enquiry:

Forms

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enhungering Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
enhungers Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
enhungered Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
enhungered Tense=Past lexicographic