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Adjective esurient has 3 senses
- famished, ravenous, sharp-set, starved, esurient - extremely hungry; "they were tired and famished for food and sleep"; "a ravenous boy"; "the family was starved and ragged"; "fell into the esurient embrance of a predatory enemy"
Antonym: thirsty (indirect, via hungry)
- avid, devouring, esurient, greedy - (often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous; "avid for adventure"; "an avid ambition to succeed"; "fierce devouring affection"; "the esurient eyes of an avid curiosity"; "greedy for fame"
Antonyms: undesirous, undesiring (indirect, via desirous)
- edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish - devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves"; "voracious sharks"
Antonym: abstemious (indirect, via gluttonous)
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