Crossword clues for thirsted
thirsted
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thirst \Thirst\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Thirsted; p. pr. & vb. n. Thirsting.] [AS. [thorn]yrstan. See Thirst, n.]
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To feel thirst; to experience a painful or uneasy sensation of the throat or fauces, as for want of drink.
The people thirsted there for water.
--Ex. xvii. 3. -
To have a vehement desire.
My soul thirsteth for . . . the living God.
--Ps. xlii. 2.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: thirst)
Usage examples of "thirsted".
Ah, my God, it appeared to me that life at that moment beckoned to me with thousands of joys, thousands of charms, which I had never known, and for which my soul thirsted as for the manna in the wilderness.
But I hungered and thirsted not even after those first works of Thine, but after Thee Thyself, the Truth, "with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
It was the rack and the fire, and my brain thirsted as my heart thirsted, and my heart grew bigger and bigger, and louder and louder, and still I wouldn't give in.
Thereby did follow a mighty and terrible war between these elder races and Bloodstone, and great was the destruction of that fearful combat, despite that Bloodstone was much weakened from its flight and its building of Arellarti, and that its power lattice was not completed, so that it could not draw upon the energies for which it thirsted sorely.