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What does "thirst" mean?

Thirst: With thirst, with cold, with hunger so confounded. Chaucer.

Additional senses

  1. 2.Fig.: A want and eager desire after anything; a craving or longing; -- usually with for, of, or after; as, the thirst for gold. "Thirst of worldy good." Fairfax. "The thirst I had of knowledge." Milton.
  2. 3.To feel thirst; to experience a painful or uneasy sensation of the throat or fauces, as for want of drink. The people thirsted there for water. Ex. xvii.
  3. 4.2. To have a vehement desire. My soul thirsteth for . . . the living God. Ps. xlii.
  4. 5.To have a thirst for. [R.] He seeks his keeper's flesh, and thirsts his blood. Prior.

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