1 [U,sing.] the feeling of needing or wanting a drink:
He quenched his thirst with a long drink of cold water. * She woke up with a raging thirst and a pounding headache.
2 [U] the state of not having enough water to drink:
Thousands are dying of thirst.
3 [sing.] ~ (for sth) a strong desire for sth:
a thirst for knowledge
verb [V] (old use) to be thirsty
PHRASALVERBS
thirst for sth (literary) to feel a strong desire for sth:
She thirsted for power.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for thirst is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is thirst a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, thirst is tagged as noun.
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