ahungered

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

a- +‎ hungered

Adjective

ahungered (comparative more ahungered, superlative most ahungered)

  1. pinched with hunger; very hungry
    • 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], Shirley. A Tale. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC:
      To this extenuated spectre, perhaps, a crumb is not thrown once a year, but when ahungered and athirst to famine—when all humanity has forgotten the dying tenant of a decaying house—Divine Mercy remembers the mourner […]
    • 1907, Helen Elizabeth Coolidge, Poems:
      May be my strength on which they lean; / My voice! Oh, may each wanderer heed; / My table those ahungered feed.
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