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ATHIRST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does athirst mean?
• ATHIRST (adjective)
The adjective ATHIRST has 1 sense:
1. (usually followed by 'for') extremely desirous
Familiarity information: ATHIRST used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(usually followed by 'for') extremely desirous
Synonyms:
Context example:
thirsty for information
Similar:
desirous; wishful (having or expressing desire for something)
Context examples
But I always woke and found it an empty mockery; and I was desolate and abandoned—my life dark, lonely, hopeless—my soul athirst and forbidden to drink—my heart famished and never to be fed.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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