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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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
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
Then they lay down to sleep, and both Trust and Amos were soon snoring; whereas I was left, already athirst and hungry, to await the approach of a terrible and lingering death.
From Treasure of Kings Being the Story of the Discovery of the \"Big Fish,\" or the Quest of the Greater Treasure of the Incas of Peru. by Charles Gilson
I desire to know; my labouring intellect is athirst to comprehend and understand, and its first discoveries enchant it.
From Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History by Auguste Sabatier
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