word-vault/dist/data/cards/hu/hunger.json

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{
    "term": "hunger",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "the state of not having enough food to eat, especially when this causes illness or death",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Around fifty people die of hunger every day in the camp."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The organization works to alleviate world hunger and disease."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Thousands of people have died of hunger."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the campaign to end world hunger"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Social issues"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["extreme", "constant", "global"],
                "verb + hunger": ["feel", "be weak from", "be weak with"],
                "hunger + noun": ["pangs", "strike"],
                "phrases": ["pangs of hunger"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the feeling caused by a need to eat",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "If you feel hunger pangs between meals, eat some fruit or nuts."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I felt faint with hunger."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The new snack bar will keep those hunger pangs at bay."
                },
                {
                    "text": "mid-morning, when those hunger pangs strike"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The meal had not satisfied his hunger."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The walkers were weak from hunger."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Any good weight loss regime should not lead to extreme hunger."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It is usual to feel hunger during exercise."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Perhaps the cat was killing to satisfy hunger."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Feelings"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["extreme", "constant", "global"],
                "verb + hunger": ["feel", "be weak from", "be weak with"],
                "hunger + noun": ["pangs", "strike"],
                "phrases": ["pangs of hunger"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a strong desire for something",
            "sensetop": "hunger (for something)",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She has an insatiable hunger for knowledge."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Nothing seemed to satisfy their hunger for truth."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We sense a real hunger for something new and different in politics."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They have a hunger for power and influence."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He is driven by an insatiable creative hunger."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Here's another gritty series to satisfy your true crime hunger."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["deep", "great", "insatiable"],
                "verb + hunger": ["feel", "have", "satisfy"],
                "hunger + verb": ["grow"],
                "preposition": ["hunger for"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈhʌŋɡə(r)/",
                "audio": "hu/hunger/hunger__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈhʌŋɡər/",
                "audio": "hu/hunger/hunger__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English hungor (noun), hyngran (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch honger and German Hunger."
}