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{
"term": "hungry",
"partOfSpeech": "adjectivenoun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "feeling that you want to eat something",
"cefr": "a1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "I'm really hungry."
},
{
"text": "She wasn't feeling very hungry."
},
{
"text": "Is anyone getting hungry?"
},
{
"text": "All this talk of food is making me hungry."
},
{
"text": "There were eight **hungry mouths** *(= hungry people)* to feed at home."
},
{
"text": "We were all ravenously hungry after the walk."
},
{
"text": "I have a hungry family to feed."
}
],
"topics": ["Feelings"],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "feel", "go"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "not having enough food to eat",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "Thousands are **going hungry** because of the failure of this year's harvest."
},
{
"text": "Over 850 million people worldwide are hungry."
},
{
"text": "There are tens of thousands of hungry children in this country."
}
],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "feel", "go"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "people who do not have enough food to eat",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "causing you to feel that you want to eat something",
"examples": [
{
"text": "All this gardening is hungry work."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 5,
"definition": "having or showing a strong desire for something",
"sensetop": "hungry for somethinghungry to do something",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "power-hungry corporations"
},
{
"text": "Both parties are hungry for power.",
"contextForm": "hungry for something"
},
{
"text": "The child is simply hungry for affection."
},
{
"text": "We like to use small agencies that are hungry for our business."
},
{
"text": "Every day they come to school hungry to learn.",
"contextForm": "hungry to do something"
},
{
"text": "His eyes had a wild hungry look in them."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈhʌŋɡri/",
"audio": "hu/hungry/hungry__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈhʌŋɡri/",
"audio": "hu/hungry/hungry__us_2.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Old English hungrig, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch hongerig, German hungrig, also to hunger."
}