{
    "term": "hungry",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjectivenoun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "feeling that you want to eat something",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I'm really hungry."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She wasn't feeling very hungry."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Is anyone getting hungry?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "All this talk of food is making me hungry."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There were eight **hungry mouths** *(= hungry people)* to feed at home."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We were all ravenously hungry after the walk."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I have a hungry family to feed."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Feelings"],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "feel", "go"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "not having enough food to eat",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Thousands are **going hungry** because of the failure of this year's harvest."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Over 850 million people worldwide are hungry."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There are tens of thousands of hungry children in this country."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "feel", "go"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "people who do not have enough food to eat",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "causing you to feel that you want to eat something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "All this gardening is hungry work."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "having or showing a strong desire for something",
            "sensetop": "hungry for somethinghungry to do something",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "power-hungry corporations"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Both parties are hungry for power.",
                    "contextForm": "hungry for something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The child is simply hungry for affection."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We like to use small agencies that are hungry for our business."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Every day they come to school hungry to learn.",
                    "contextForm": "hungry to do something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "His eyes had a wild hungry look in them."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈhʌŋɡri/",
                "audio": "hu/hungry/hungry__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈhʌŋɡri/",
                "audio": "hu/hungry/hungry__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English hungrig, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch hongerig, German hungrig, also to hunger."
}