enhunger

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Etymology edit

Verb edit

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

(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

References edit

“enhunger”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.