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饥
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Definitions
- 1. (bound form) hungry
Example Sentences
1 shown我 饥 饿！
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Words Containing 饥
starving and freezing
when hungry, you can't pick what you eat (idiom); beggars can't be choosers
to allay one's hunger and slake one's thirst (idiom)
hungry and thirsty
hunger
The well-fed cannot know how the starving suffer (idiom).
bulimia
to hunger for sth (idiom); eagerly
stomach rumbling with hunger
famine repeats unceasingly (idiom, from Book of Songs)
to suffer from hunger
lit. to allay one's hunger using a picture of a cake
to allay one's hunger
crop failure
The well-fed cannot know how the starving suffer (idiom).
storing grain against a famine
starving
to bury one's head in the sand (idiom)