athirst
Americanadjective
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having a keen desire; eager (often followed byfor ).
She has long been athirst for European travel.
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Archaic. thirsty.
adjective
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(often foll by for) having an eager desire; longing
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archaic thirsty
Etymology
Origin of athirst
before 1000; Middle English athurst, ofthurst, Old English ofthyrst, past participle of ofthyrstan. See a- 2, thirst
Example Sentences
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In Detroit, five-year-old Donald Prieur, athirst for knowledge, set out for school for the first time, paused en route to take up the study of a barrel, was eventually sawed out of it.
From Time Magazine Archive
Why not bring the art of the cinema to bars, restaurants, lunch wagons, station waiting-rooms, drugstores, wherever idle people congregate with time on their hands and minds athirst for esthetic experience?
From Time Magazine Archive
The novelist is said to have confessed that he finds the pugilist almost without a sense of humor, but interestingly athirst and groping.
From Time Magazine Archive
I have been like a man athirst in the desert; but I have waited day after day, until now I can wait no longer, sweetheart.'
From My Lady Rotha A Romance by Weyman, Stanley J.
He longed to see the lands of which the sailor-men had spoken; he was athirst for discovery.
From Palm Tree Island by Strang, Herbert
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