What does hunger-pain mean?

hunger-pain

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.05 in modern English

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Countable; Uncountable

"For seldom did she go to chapel-shrift, And seldom felt she any hunger-pain;"
"We observe, for instance, ' hunger-pain' in gastric as well as in duodenal diseases."
"Hunger-pain, though characteristic of duodenal ulcer, may also be a feature in dyspepsia with no evidence of ulcer."

hunger-pains (plural)

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