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Definition of Thirst

1. Noun. A physiological need to drink.

2. Verb. Feel the need to drink.

3. Noun. Strong desire for something (not food or drink). "Hunger for affection"

4. Verb. Have a craving, appetite, or great desire for. "They thirst more bread"

Definition of Thirst

1. n. A sensation of dryness in the throat associated with a craving for liquids, produced by deprivation of drink, or by some other cause (as fear, excitement, etc.) which arrests the secretion of the pharyngeal mucous membrane; hence, the condition producing this sensation.

2. v. t. To feel thirst; to experience a painful or uneasy sensation of the throat or fauces, as for want of drink.

3. v. t. To have a thirst for.

Definition of Thirst

1. Noun. A sensation of dryness in the throat associated with a craving for liquids, produced by deprivation of drink, or by some other cause (as fear, excitement, etc.) which arrests the secretion of the pharyngeal mucous membrane; hence, the condition producing this sensation. ¹

2. Noun. (qualifier figurative) A want and eager desire after anything; a craving or longing; — usually with for, of, or after; as, the thirst for gold. ¹

3. Verb. To desire. ¹

4. Verb. To be thirsty. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Thirst

1. to feel a desire or need to drink [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Thirst

1. To have a thirst for. "He seeks his keeper's flesh, and thirsts his blood." (Prior) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Thirst

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thirlage thirlages thirled thirling thirls thirst (current term) thirst fever thirst for knowledge thirsted thirster

thirsters thirsteth thirstier thirstiest thirstily thirstiness thirstinesses thirsting thirstland thirstless

Literary usage of Thirst

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Text-book of Physiology for Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1911)
"The Sense of thirst.— Our sensations of thirst arc projected more or less accurately to the pharynx, and the facts that we know would seem to indicate tnat ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"thirst, a craving for water or other drink. As appetite shows a need for the introduction of food into the system, so thirst is a sensation indicating the ..."

3. Boanerges and Barnabas; judgment and mercy or wine and oil for wounded by Francis Quarles (1855)
"Lord, I thirst; Thou art the spring of life, satisfy me: I thirst, Lord, 1 thirst ... 0 precious water, which quenches the noisome thirst of this world, ..."

4. Transactions of the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists by American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (1895)
"I HAVE ventured to bring before you these observations on the cause of the thirst which so invariably follows even the simplest abdominal section, ..."

5. The Physiology of Common Life by George Henry Lewes (1859)
"CHAPTER I. HUNGER AND thirst. Incentives to action—Cause of hunger : waste and repair of the body— Periodicity of hunger—Comparison of the organism with a ..."

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