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hunger-pain en · NOUN
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(alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable) Alternative form of hunger pain.
We observe, for instance, ' hunger-pain' in gastric as well as in duodenal diseases.
1913, H. Frowde, Transactions: 17th International Congress of Medicine, page 63:Hunger-pain, though characteristic of duodenal ulcer, may also be a feature in dyspepsia with no evidence of ulcer.
1935, The Clinical Journal - Volume 64, page 311:For seldom did she go to chapel-shrift, And seldom felt she any hunger-pain;
1820, John Keats, Isabella, or The Pot of Basil:
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