thirst
noun
a sensation of dryness in the mouth and throat caused by need of liquid.
had thirsted
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past perfectof thirst.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Eventually we talked it out and I got the reassurance that my wounded pride had thirsted for in the first place.
From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2013
He could not comprehend how he could so completely drift away, and yet clearly it was because he had found here in Sanger the well for which he had thirsted.
From Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned by Ernest Thompson Seton
And Johnny, whose soul for thirty years had thirsted for adventure, briskly seized an ancient pistol and charged off through the forest.
From Diane of the Green Van by Leona Dalrymple
The affection I had thirsted for was offered to me here.
From Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Georg Morris Cohen Brandes
She could not understand the apathy which seemed to have come over the English officer who so lately had thirsted for the young commander's blood, and she went away from him amazed and dejected.
From The Sea-Witch Or, the African Quadroon : a Story of the Slave Coast by Maturin Murray Ballou
