Crossword clues for thirst
thirst
- Crave water
- Water shortage consequence
- Mild dehydration symptom
- Grounds for guzzling
- Drive to drink?
- Desire for a drink
- You may slake it
- What you slake
- What water quenches
- T-shirt (anag)
- Summer sensation?
- Something to quench
- Reason to find an oasis
- Need water
- Need to have a drink
- Kind of craving
- It'll drive you to drink
- It will lead you to drink
- Hunger, or hunger's counterpart
- Hunger, in one sense
- Have one for a beer after rocking out
- Feeling that's remedied by drinking a beverage
- Feeling on a hot day
- Feeling of a person stranded in the desert
- Dry feeling
- Desire, as for knowledge
- Crave hydration
- A drink can quench it
- Craving
- Great desire
- Common companion of a dry throat
- Hankering
- Yen
- A physiological need to drink
- Strong desire for something (not food or drink)
- ___ for knowledge
- Dryness or desire
- Ardent desire
- Strong desire
- Craving for drink
- Eager longing
- Way below half of 13 yen
- Need for drink
- Beast involved in Bataclan crime
- Have a craving for
- Desire to drink
- Desire for water
- Desire for drink
- T-shirt ripped up in lust
- Parched feeling
- Hanker (for)
- Reason to drink
- More than desire
- Feel the need to drink
- Need for water
- Intense longing
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
Thirst \Thirst\, v. t. To have a thirst for. [R.]
He seeks his keeper's flesh, and thirsts his blood.
--Prior.
Thirst \Thirst\ (th[~e]rst), n. [OE. thirst, [thorn]urst, AS. [thorn]urst, [thorn]yrst; akin to D. dorst, OS. thurst, G. durst, Icel. [thorn]orsti, Sw. & Dan. t["o]rst, Goth. [thorn]a['u]rstei thirst, [thorn]a['u]rsus dry, withered, [thorn]a['u]rsie[thorn] mik I thirst, ga[thorn]a['i]rsan to wither, L. torrere to parch, Gr. te`rsesqai to become dry, tesai`nein to dry up, Skr. t[.r]sh to thirst. [root]54. Cf. Torrid.]
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A sensation of dryness in the throat associated with a craving for liquids, produced by deprivation of drink, or by some other cause (as fear, excitement, etc.) which arrests the secretion of the pharyngeal mucous membrane; hence, the condition producing this sensation.
Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, and our children . . . with thirst?
--Ex. xvii. 3.With thirst, with cold, with hunger so confounded.
--Chaucer. Fig.: A want and eager desire after anything; a craving or longing; -- usually with for, of, or after; as, the thirst for gold. ``Thirst of worldy good.''
--Fairfax. ``The thirst I had of knowledge.''
--Milton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English þyrstan "to thirst, thirst after," from the noun (see thirst (n.)); the figurative sense of the verb was present in Old English. Compare Old Saxon thurstian, Dutch dorsten, Old High German dursten, German dürsten, all verbs from nouns. Related: Thirsted; thirsting.
Old English þurst, from Proto-Germanic *thurstu- (cognates: Old Saxon thurst, Frisian torst, Dutch dorst, Old High German and German durst), from Proto-Germanic verbal stem *thurs- (cognates: Gothic thaursjan, Old English thyrre), from PIE root *ters- "dry" (see terrain). Figurative sense of "vehement desire" is attested from c.1200.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A sensation of dryness in the throat associated with a craving for liquids, produced by deprivation of drink, or by some other cause (as fear, excitement, etc.) which arrests the secretion of the pharyngeal mucous membrane; hence, the condition producing this sensation. 2 (qualifier: figuratively) A want and eager desire after anything; a craving or longing; — usually with for, of, or after; as, the thirst for gold. vb. 1 To be thirsty. 2 To desire.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Thirst is the craving for fluids, resulting in the basic instinct of animals to drink. It is an essential mechanism involved in fluid balance. It arises from a lack of fluids or an increase in the concentration of certain osmolites, such as salt. If the water volume of the body falls below a certain threshold or the osmolite concentration becomes too high, the brain signals thirst.
Continuous dehydration can cause many problems, but is most often associated with renal problems and neurological problems such as seizures. Excessive thirst, known as polydipsia, along with excessive urination, known as polyuria, may be an indication of diabetes mellitus or diabetes insipidus.
There are receptors and other systems in the body that detect a decreased volume or an increased osmolite concentration. They signal to the central nervous system, where central processing succeeds. Some sources, therefore, distinguish "extracellular thirst" from "intracellular thirst", where extracellular thirst is thirst generated by decreased volume and intracellular thirst is thirst generated by increased osmolite concentration. Nevertheless, the craving itself is something generated from central processing in the brain, no matter how it is detected.
Thirst is an album by Randy Stonehill, released in 1998 on Brentwood Music.
Thirst is a 1949 Swedish drama film directed by Ingmar Bergman. It was released as Three Strange Loves in the United Kingdom.
Thirst is a craving for liquids.
Thirst may also refer to:
Films:
- Desert Nights or Thirst, a 1929 silent film starring John Gilbert
- Thirst (1949 film), a 1949 Swedish film by Ingmar Bergman
- Pyaasa or Thirst, a 1957 Indian film by Guru Dutt
- Thirst (1961 film), a 1961 Romanian film
- Thirst (1979 film), an Australian film by Rod Hardy
- The Thirst (film), a 2006 horror film directed by Jeremy Kasten
- Thirst (2009 film), a Korean film by Park Chan-wook
- Thirst (2010 film), a 2010 film starring Lacey Chabert
In music:
- The Thirst, a British indie band
- Thirst (Randy Stonehill album), 1998
- Thirst (Tankard album), 2008
- Thirst (Clock DVA album), 1981
- "Thirst ( A Man in Love)", a dance track by Korean boy band Super Junior
- Thirst, A song by City And Colour.
Other:
- Thirst, a one-act play by Eugene O'Neill
- "Thirst" (Smallville) fifth season episode of Smallville
- "Thirst" (NCIS), a ninth season episode of NCIS
- The Thirst, an enemy of the comic book hero Aquaman
Thirst is a 1979 Australian vampire film by Rod Hardy. It stars Australian actors Chantal Contouri and Max Phipps and British actor David Hemmings. It has been described as a blend of vampire and science fiction genres, influenced by the 1973 film Soylent Green as well as drawing on the vampire folklore of Elizabeth Báthory – one of several vampire films in the 1970s to do so.
Thirst is the thirteenth studio album by the German thrash metal band Tankard, released on December 22, 2008. The limited edition of this album was sold with a bonus DVD.
Thirst is the second studio album by English post-punk band Clock DVA. It was released on 24 January 1981, through record label Fetish. Soon after the album's release, this incarnation of the band would split up, with several members going on to form The Box with singer Peter Hope.
Thirst is a 2010 Canadian thriller film directed by Jeffrey Lando and starring Lacey Chabert, Tygh Runyan, Mercedes McNab, and Brandon Quinn.
Thirst is a 1961 Romanian drama film directed by Mircea Drăgan and Mihai Iacob. It was entered into the 2nd Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Silver Prize.
Thirst (; literally: Bat) is a 2009 South Korean horror film written, produced and directed by Park Chan-wook. It is loosely based on the novel Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola. The film tells the story of a Catholic priest—who is in love with his friend’s wife—turning into a vampire through a failed medical experiment. Park has stated, "This film was originally called 'The Bat' to convey a sense of horror. After all, it is about vampires. But it is also more than that. It is about passion and a love triangle. I feel that it is unique because it is not just a thriller, and not merely a horror film, but an illicit love story as well." The film won the Jury Prize at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. It is the first mainstream Korean film to feature full-frontal male nudity.
Thirst is an Australian desert drama written and directed by Robert Carter, and starring Victoria Haralabidou, Myles Pollard, Hanna Mangan-Lawrence and Tom Green. Thirst is about four individuals who become stranded in the desert with limited water, and are forced to make choices that challenge their ideas of themselves and what they truly need.
Thirst (Spanish: La sed) is a 1960 Argentine-Spanish drama film directed by Lucas Demare. It is set during the Chaco War (1932-35) between Bolivia and Paraguay, sometimes known as the "War of the Thirst". It was made as a co-production between Argentina Sono Film and the Spanish company Suevia Films.
Usage examples of "thirst".
A philosopher, liberal of his wealth and parsimonious of his time, might be insensible to the common allurements of ambition, the thirst of gold and employment.
One or two leaned against the rock wall, pressing their brows to the damp stone as if that might assuage their growing thirst.
The feeling was akin to assuaging hunger or thirst, but unique, powerful, and good.
The Autocrat began to make a peculiar noise that sounded like the death gurgle of an animal dying of pain and thirst.
To tell it concisely, Yama had to miss out the fear and tension he had felt during every moment of his adventures, the long hours of discomfort when he had tried to sleep in wet clothes on the ftw of the banyan, his growing hunger and thirst while wandering the hot shaly land of the Silent Quarter of the City of the Dead.
The stranger to whom the carriage belonged stood by the window, detailing in a low voice to the chaplain of the house what particulars of the occurrence he was acquainted with, while the youngest scion of the family, a boy of about ten years, and who in the general confusion had thrust himself unnoticed into the room, stood close to the pair, with open mouth and thirsting ears and a face on which childish interest at a fearful tale was strongly blent with the more absorbed feeling of terror at the truth.
It is not worth this pains in my own eyes--and thirsted for by my fellow men--it is a burthen I would willingly lay down.
She complained of hunger and thirst, which resulted in her transfer to the blue where Xaefyer relished explaining the nipples.
The steady infantry of the Romans, fainting with heat and thirst, could neither hope for victory if they preserved their ranks, nor break their ranks without exposing themselves to the most imminent danger.
Pliny, in affected though forcible language, has condemned the thirst of gain, which explores the last confines of the earth, for the pernicious purpose of exposing to the public eye naked draperies and transparent matrons.
When naught but bones remained of the marmots, tossed beside the tiny skins, she reached a small waterskin to him to slake his thirst.
Clear water seeking to quench my thirst, in this burning desert of mediocrity which I cross so painfully!
Even when these sounds had faded into silence, she remained where she was, hoping that Melia might fall asleep, so that she could enter the hut they shared unheard and unquestioned, but finally pain and thirst overcame her scruples and she staggered dazedly across the moonlit clearing, seeking the only sanctuary she knew.
If there is febrile excitement, a hard pulse, frequent and throbbing, and if there is headache, thirst, parched lips, hot and dry skin, as is sometimes the case, then menorrhagia is due to an augmented action of the heart and arteries, and the indication of treatment is to diminish vascular action.
If it be a good thing to excite this blood thirst in the modern man, then the Mensur is a useful institution.