Word Finder - thirst

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A sensation of dryness in the throat associated with a craving for liquids, produced by deprivation of drink, or by some other cause (such as fear, excitement, etc.) which spots the secretion of the pharyngeal mucous membrane

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The condition producing the sensation of thirst.

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A want and eager desire (for something); a craving or longing.

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a thirst for gold

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Sexual lust

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To be thirsty.

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(usually followed by "for") To desire vehemently.

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I thirst for knowledge and education will sate me.

Her hunger and thirst satisfied, she was getting sleepy again.

For the thirst ice may be given by the mouth.

If you are in a desert dying of thirst, you value the first glass of water very highly, the second glass a bit less, and the 802nd not at all.

He drinks to quench his thirst, and that is all.

The sacri fice of these trusted soldiers failed however to sate the thirst of the new age.

A universal thirst set in for Occidental science and literature, so that students occupied themselves everywhere with readers and grammars modelled on European lines rather than with the Analects or the Kojiki.

In ancient Persia the rainbow was the celestial serpent, and among some African tribes it is the subterranean wealth-conferring serpent, stretching its head to the clouds, and spilling the rain in its greedy thirst.'

This thirst must be extinguished by complete annihilation of desire, by letting it go, expelling it, separating oneself from it, giving it no room.

For the 150 miles between Ras Malan and Pasni Alexander was compelled by the natural barriers to march inland, and it was here that his troops sank under the horrors of heat and thirst and sand.

In larger doses colchicum or colchicine acts as a most violent gastrointestinal irritant, causing terrible pain, colic,vomiting, diarrhoea, haemorrhage from the bowel, thirst and ultimately death from collapse.

The spleen continues to enlarge; the urine is now scanty and high-coloured; the body temperature is high, but the highest temperatures occur during the chill; there is considerable thirst; and there is the usual intellectual unfitness, and it may be confusion, of the feverish state.

In small doses it causes only thirst and headache, with furred tongue and some excitement.

At this crisis she was ruled by the monk Girolamo Savonarola, who inspired the people with a thirst for freedom, preached the necessity of reformation, and placed himself in direct antagonism to Rome.

The story is that the Romans, entangled in a defile, were suffering from thirst.

Ultimately, after suffering agonies of thirst in the desert, the army made its way back to the coast at the modern harbour of Pasin, whence the return.

The first Spanish adventurers came, not to colonize, but to satisfy as rapidly as possible and by the labour of the enslaved aborigines, their thirst for silver and gold.

The various other benefits of fasting are that man gets to exercise sacrificing physical comfort and to endure hunger and thirst.

It is the place where the fire never goes out, where the worm never dies, where the thirst is never quenched.

In 1913 Annie Kenney was sentenced to eighteen months in prison and like other suffragettes she went on hunger and thirst strike.

There will be a bar to slake the thirst generated by all the activity.

Another great way to work up a raging thirst for the evening.

Thirst for vengeance Milan radio said that a large crowd gathered in Piazza Loreto to see the bodies, 18 in number.

Other symptoms include fever, depression, confusion, painful muscle spasms, sensitivity to touch, loud noise, and light, extreme thirst, painful swallowing, excessive salivation, and loss of muscle tone.

Around the 1880s the foundry Arms Pub was built, no doubt to slake the thirst of the foundry workers.

Thirst, Baby, Maxwells and the Duke of Cambridge all have great happy hours.

To quench your thirst, try a local microbrew.

With extensive itinerary choices available from numerous ports of call, anyone can quench their thirst for the royal treatment with a Royal Caribbean cruise.

Where can you find good deals to satiate your thirst for platforming, fragging, and rocking out?

Companies and resellers often run promotions on the latest gadgets for cell phones, so finding a great deal not only satisfies your wallet, it quenches your thirst for new technology.

Her thirst for glory had long since been slaked, and she longed for peaceful enjoyment of the civic boons which he had conferred upon her in that greatest period of his life, the Consulate.

Without it life would be impossible, and it is well recognized that death from thirst is more awful than death from hunger.

This new CD from Assert will definitely satisfy the thirst for some hardcore punk mayhem.

Wines of quality to quench the thirst in the summer sun.

This book will amply satisfy that thirst for more knowledge in this field.

They have an insatiable thirst for anything made of gold or silver.

The symptoms may develop so gradually that you can become used to your increased thirst and tiredness.

Despite intense thirst it was not possible to swallow the chilled water except for a few quick gulps.

You have no burning thirst for the salvation of others.

Starvation itself (see also Hunger And Thirst) is of the nature of a disease which may be prevented by diet; nevertheless there are connected with it a few peculiarities of scientific and practical interest.

Siegfried readily agreed, and though handicapped by carrying shield, sword and spear, easily reached the goal first, but waited, with his customary courtesy, until the king had arrived and drunk before slaking his own thirst.

When considerably diluted they are only slightly irritating; externally applied and in the stomach they have an antiseptic action; they increase the secretion of saliva, and thus assuage thirst.

He grew weak from hunger and thirst.

It is a thirst that will not be quenched by the waters at the bottom of Jacob 's well.

I had a raging thirst and back ache from bending and stooping, he said.

During the night many men died and all suffered severely from thirst, and the suffocating atmosphere, water was promised but not given.

This Super League thirst quencher, gives me a taste for Parisian adventure !

Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness; for they shall be filled.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, says Jesus.

A more controversial example may be the universal thirst for revenge.

There is a thirst for knowledge about the past.