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English
Etymology
en- + hunger
Verb
enhunger (third-person singular simple present enhungers, present participle enhungering, simple past and past participle enhungered)
- (transitive, literary, dated) To make hungry.
1836, James Martineau, The Rationale of Religious Enquiry:Those animal passions which vice had […] enhungered to feed on innocence and life.
- February 1860, Dr. John C. Peters, "The Late Reforms in Pathology and Therapeutics", in Homoepathic Journal
- such small quantities of food as would enhunger, if not almost starve a hearty person
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