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thurst

  • 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 .
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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."

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