enhunger

English

Etymology

en- + hunger

Verb

enhunger (third-person singular simple present enhungers, present participle enhungering, simple past and past participle enhungered)

  1. (transitive, literary, dated) To make hungry.
    • 1836, James Martineau, The Rationale of Religious Enquiry:
      Those animal passions which vice had [] enhungered to feed on innocence and life.
    • February 1860, Dr. John C. Peters, "The Late Reforms in Pathology and Therapeutics", in Homoepathic Journal
      such small quantities of food as would enhunger, if not almost starve a hearty person

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