Definizione monolingua

thirst

thirst (third-person singular simple present thirsts, present participle thirsting, simple past and past participle thirsted)

1. To desire.

   I thirst for knowledge and education will sate me.

2. To be thirsty.

   Drink up if you thirst.

thirst (plural thirsts)

1. A sensation of dryness in the throat associated with a craving for liquids, produced by deprivation of drink, or by some other cause (as fear, excitement, etc.) which arrests the secretion of the pharyngeal mucous membrane; hence, the condition producing this sensation.
   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IV

     ""We havent one chance for life in a hundred thousand if we dont find food and water upon Caprona. This water coming out of the cliff is not salt; but neither is it fit to drink, though each of us has drunk. It is fair to assume that inland the river is fed by pure streams, that there are fruits and herbs and game. Shall we lie out here and die of thirst and starvation with a land of plenty possibly only a few hundred yards away? We have the means for navigating a subterranean river. Are we too cowardly to utilize this means?""

2. (figurative) A want and eager desire after anything; a craving or longing; — usually with for, of, or after; as, the thirst for gold.

Definizione dizionario thirst

	sete
	dryness
	A physiological need to drink.

	avidità
	figurative

avere sete

Altri significati:

To feel thirst.

To be thirsty.

to be thirsty

A sensation of dryness in the throat associated with a craving for liquids, produced by deprivation of drink, or by some other cause (as fear, excitement, etc.) which arrests the secretion of the pharyngeal mucous membrane; hence, the condition producing this sensation.

To desire.

to desire

(figurative) A want and eager desire after anything; a craving or longing; — usually with for, of, or after; as, the thirst for gold.