Definition of "thirst" []

• A sensation of dryness in the mouth and throat related to a need or desire to drink. (noun)
• The desire to drink. (noun)
• An insistent desire; a craving: a thirst for knowledge. (noun)
• To feel a need to drink. (verb-intransitive)
• To have a strong craving; yearn. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Zoretti was an Italian nobleman -- "one of those characters in whose bosom resides an unquenchable thirst of avarice" [ "_thirst_ of _avarice_" is good!], etc."
• ""'Hunger and thirst after righteousness' -- I do desire it -- I do not '_hunger and thirst_.'"
• "The word "thirst, " rhyming with "first" may make you think of the first water you drank in a certain place or with a certain person."