Noun: thirst
| Singular | thirst |
| Plural | thirsts |
Sample Sentences
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We developed a great thirst during our hike.
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He had quite a thirst on and so headed to his favourite Dublin pub.
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If you go out in the desert for long without water, the thirst can drive you mad.
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"We haven't one chance for life in a hundred thousand if we don't find food and water upon Caprona. This water coming out of the cliff is not salt; but neither is it fit to drink, though each of us has drunk. It is fair to assume that inland the river is fed by pure streams, that there are fruits and herbs and game. Shall we lie out here and die of thirst and starvation with a land of plenty possibly only a few hundred yards away? We have the means for navigating a subterranean river. Are we too cowardly to utilize this means?" [1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:]
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She had a real thirst for news and that greatly helped her career.
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He had a thirst for her and she had the same for him.
Nouns inflected like thirst
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-West Germanic *þurstu
3. Old English þurst
4. Old English þyrstaninflu.
5. Middle English thirst
6. English thirst
7. From Middle English thirst, thurst, from Old English þurst, from Proto-West Germanic *þurstu, from Proto-Germanic *þurstuz, from Proto-Indo-European *ters- (“dry”).
8. Germanic cognates include Old High German thurst, Middle High German durst, German Durst, Old Saxon thurst, Old Dutch thursti, Middle Dutch dorst, dorste, Dutch dorst, Old Norse þorsti (Swedish törst, Icelandic þorsti, Faroese tosti, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål tørst, Norwegian Nynorsk tørste). Indo-European cognates include Ancient Greek τέρσομαι (térsomai), Albanian djersë (“sweat”), Sanskrit तृष्णा (tṛṣṇā, “desire; thirst”), Sanskrit तृष्यति (tṛ́ṣyati), Latin terra, Latin torridus. See: Middle English Nouns '
thirst,thurst', Old English Nouns '
þurst', German Nouns '
Durst', Dutch Nouns '
dorst', Old Norse Nouns '
þorsti', Swedish Nouns '
törst', Icelandic Nouns '
þorsti', Faroese Nouns '
tosti', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns '
tørste', Latin Nouns '
terra', Latin Nouns '
torridus'.
Verbs referencing "thirst"
Irish Nouns
tír, Danish Nouns
tørst.