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Meanings
Noun
1. hunger; starvation
Pitch accent
Used in vocabulary (4 in total)
to suffer from hunger
to starve and freeze to death
(lit.) a starved dog does not fear the rod
The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope
Examples (8 in total)
Many of the workers died of hunger.
The refugees struggled against hunger.
Hunger is one of the largest social misfortunes.