Word Meanings - ENHUNGER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To make hungry. Those animal passions which vice had . . . enhungered to feed on innocence and life. J. Martineau.

Related words: (words related to ENHUNGER)

• ANIMALIZATION
  1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen.
• ANIMALCULISM
  The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules.
• HUNGRY
  1. Feeling hunger; having a keen appetite; feeling uneasiness or distress from want of food; hence, having an eager desire. 2. Showing hunger or a craving desire; voracious. The cruel, hungry foam. C. Kingsley. Cassius has a lean and hungry look.
• ANIMALITY
  Animal existence or nature. Locke.
• INNOCENCE
  1. The state or quality of being innocent; freedom from that which is harmful or infurious; harmlessness. 2. The state or quality of being morally free from guilt or sin; purity of heart; blamelessness. The silence often of pure innocence Persuades
• ANIMALLY
  Physically. G. Eliot.
• ANIMALNESS
  Animality.
• THOSE
  The plural of that. See That.
• ANIMALCULIST
  1. One versed in the knowledge of animalcules. Keith. 2. A believer in the theory of animalculism.
• ANIMAL
  1. An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• ANIMALCULE
  An animal, invisible, or nearly so, to the naked eye. See Infusoria. Note: Many of the so-called animalcules have been shown to be plants, having locomotive powers something like those of animals. Among these are Volvox, the Desmidiacæ, and the
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• ANIMALCULAR; ANIMALCULINE
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, animalcules. "Animalcular life." Tyndall.
• ANIMALISH
  Like an animal.
• ANIMALISM
  The state, activity, or enjoyment of animals; mere animal life without intellectual or moral qualities; sensuality.
• ENHUNGER
  To make hungry. Those animal passions which vice had . . . enhungered to feed on innocence and life. J. Martineau.
• ANIMALCULUM
  An animalcule. Note: Animalculæ, as if from a Latin singular animalcula, is a barbarism.
• ANIMALIZE
  1. To endow with the properties of an animal; to represent in animal form. Warburton. 2. To convert into animal matter by the processes of assimilation. 3. To render animal or sentient; to reduce to the state of a lower animal; to sensualize. The
• SPATHOSE
  See SPATHIC
• BELL ANIMALCULE
  An infusorian of the family Vorticellidæ, common in fresh-water ponds.
• XANTHOSE
  An orange-yellow substance found in pigment spots of certain crabs.
• FELDSPATHIC; FELDSPATHOSE
  Pertaining to, or consisting of, feldspar.