Meanings
Verb (1-dan, intransitive)
1. to starve; to be famished; to be hungry
2. to be starved of (e.g. love); to be thirsty for (e.g. knowledge); to be hungry for
Kanji used
hunger
Pitch accent
Top 6800
Used in vocabulary (2 in total)
to be bloodthirsty
to hunger for love; to starve for love
Examples (11 in total)
The man is starving.
I'm not hungry anymore.
The children were hungry for affection.