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单词 ahungered
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ahungeredadj.

Brit. /əˈhʌŋɡəd/, U.S. /əˈhəŋɡərd/
Forms: Middle English ahungryd, Middle English–1600s ahungred, 1500s ahungerd, 1500s 1700s– ahungered.
Origin: Probably a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: ofhungered adj.
Etymology: Probably a variant of ofhungered adj., with reduction of the prefix (compare a- prefix4). Compare earlier afingered adj. and also anhungered adj.Sometimes written as two words (compare hungered adj.).
Now archaic and rare.
Reduced to hunger; in a state of hunger; hungry; = anhungered adj. Chiefly in predicative use.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > hunger > [adjective] > hungry > extremely hungry
afingered?a1300
anhungereda1387
ahungereda1450
ravened1627
ravenous1648
gaunt1746
yird-hungry1825
wolfish1848
a1450 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Bodl.) (1869) B. x. l. 59 [c1400 Laud Bothe] a-hungred [a1500 Oriel an-hungred; Laud continues afyngred and a-thurst and for chele quake].
1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xii. xxv. sig. Bvi/1 Awaye he is a hungryd whyle he liuyth.
1567 J. Jewel Def. Apol. Churche Eng. xii. ii. 225 When their eies were ful, they put vp theire kniues, and rose ahungred.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iv. f. 164 Nor..let them goe a hungerd into the pastures.
1748 Lady Luxborough Let. 28 May in Lett. to W. Shenstone (1775) 27 To eat one's cake when one is a-hungered, is most sweet.
1820 J. Keats Hyperion: a Fragm. ii, in Lamia & Other Poems 176 Saturn's ear Is all a-hunger'd.
1868 ‘G. Eliot’ Spanish Gypsy ii. 182 Soothe the frightened bird And feed the child a-hungered.
1921 Amer. Federationist Mar. 233 They carried on that strike for months, many of them impoverished and ahungered.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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