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• n  a physiological need to drink
• n  strong desire for something (not food or drink)
  a thirst for knowledge
• v  feel the need to drink
• v  have a craving, appetite, or great desire for

• Myths about the camel and its thirst-resistance are older than the Sphinxand almost as durable.
• Behind the scenes in Google's relentless thirst for more is Omid Kordestani, 42, its senior vice president for global sales and business development.
• But the classiest Obama thirst quencher we found was a rhinestone-studded glass bottle labeled "Obama 2009," which can be purchased at the Willard Hotel's Travel Traders gift shop .

• thirstiness
• hunger
• hungriness
• crave
• starve
• lust

News & Articles

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• Some ETFs with Double-Digit Dividend Yields
  Investors can choose from a number of dividend-oriented investments to quench their thirst for income, but some of the exchange traded funds that offer the beefiest yields might not be the ones you’d think ...
  June 12, 2013 - ETF Trends via Yahoo! Finance
• Terlato Wines Adds More Sparkle to its Luxury Wine Portfolio with Nino Franco Prosecco
  LAKE BLUFF, Ill., June 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Answering the growing American thirst for Prosecco, Terlato Wines today announced an addition to its portfolio of luxury wines, with a long-term agreement ...
  June 11, 2013 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
• Thirst Labs Announces New Approach to Push Notifications Based on Early Experience in Google Glass Development
  Thirst Takes Cues from Wearable Computing Trend with Advances in Push Technology to Keep Up with Topics (PRWeb June 06, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/6/prweb10807529.htm
  June 6, 2013 - PRWeb

Quotes

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• Jim Swire in Times Online
  Yet this is not the case. People continue to die of hunger and thirst, disease and poverty, in this age of plenty and unbridled consumerism. Some people remain enslaved, exploited and stripped of their dignity; others are victims of racial and... Pope Benedict XVI http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_XVI&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNG46bW2RwVceLegHVO52x6Mpv_pVg Toronto Star http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.thestar.com/News/article/165078&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNF_yuw818n4enNWS0xaiO7gmq3VGQ Dec 25, 2006 99617 132274 thirst Financial 'compensation' must remain in its inverted commas. Money cannot buy our families back," Dr Swire wrote in the Glasgow Herald. "I just wish that the needs of the relatives, namely a thirst for the truth and for justice, would be...
• President Bush in Washington Post
  Bush said that Chavez's government "claims to promote social justice. In truth, its agenda amounts to little more than empty promises and a thirst for power."