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forhungered

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
forhun-gered
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Very hungry; dying of hunger; starving.

Archaic

Example Sentences

Etymology

From Middle English forhungred, forhongred, forhyngrede (“famished, lean”), equivalent to for- (“exceedingly, very”) + hungered. Compare Dutch verhongerd (“starving, famished”), German verhungert (“starving, famished”).

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Inflected Forms

more forhungered (comparative) most forhungered (superlative)

Questions

What does forhungered mean?
Very hungry; dying of hunger; starving.
Where does forhungered come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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