Word Meanings - APOSITIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Destroying the appetite, or suspending hunger.

Related words: (words related to APOSITIC)

• DESTROYABLE
  Destructible. Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham.
• HUNGERER
  One who hungers; one who longs. Lamb.
• HUNGER
  & OHG. hungar, G. hunger, Icel. hungr, Sw. & Dan. hunger, Goth. h 1. An uneasy sensation occasioned normally by the want of food; a craving or desire for food. Note: The sensation of hunger is usually referred to the stomach, but is probably
• SUSPEND
  To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action. To suspend payment , to cease paying debts or obligations; to fail; -- said of a merchant, a bank, etc. Syn. -- To hang; interrupt; delay; intermit; stay;
• HUNGER-BIT; HUNGER-BITTEN
  Pinched or weakened by hunger. Milton.
• DESTROY
  destruire, F. détruire, fr. L. destruere, destructum; de + struere to 1. To unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence of; to demolish. But ye shall destroy
• HUNGERED
  Hungry; pinched for food. Milton.
• SUSPENDER
  One who, or that which, suspends; esp., one of a pair of straps or braces worn over the shoulders, for holding up the trousers.
• DESTROYER
  One who destroys, ruins, kills, or desolates.
• HUNGERLY
  Wanting food; starved. Shak.
• HUNGER-STARVE
  To starve with hunger; to famish. Shak.
• APPETITE
  appetere to strive after, long for; ad + petere to seek. See 1. The desire for some personal gratification, either of the body or of the mind. The object of appetite it whatsoever sensible good may be wished for; the object of will is that good
• SELF-DESTROYER
  One who destroys himself; a suicide.
• TORPEDO-BOAT DESTROYER
  A larger, swifter, and more powerful armed type of torpedo boat, originally intended principally for the destruction of torpedo boats, but later used also as a more formidable torpedo boat.
• ANHUNGERED
  Ahungered; longing.
• SELF-SUSPENDED
  Suspended by one's self or by itself; balanced. Southey.
• ENHUNGER
  To make hungry. Those animal passions which vice had . . . enhungered to feed on innocence and life. J. Martineau.
• AHUNGERED
  Pinched with hunger; very hungry. C. Bronté.
• UNDESTROYABLE
  Indestructible.
• COMMERCE DESTROYER
  A very fast, unarmored, lightly armed vessel designed to capture or destroy merchant vessels of an enemy. Not being intended to fight, they may be improvised from fast passenger steamers.