hunch | (noun) the act of bending yourself into a humped position | - |
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(noun) an impression that something might be the case | Synonyms: intuition, suspicion |
(verb) round one's back by bending forward and drawing the shoulders forward | Synonyms: hump, hunch forward, hunch over |
hunchback | (noun) a person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature of the upper spine | Synonyms: crookback, humpback |
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(noun) an abnormal backward curve to the vertebral column | Synonyms: humpback, kyphosis |
hunchbacked | (adjective) characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column | Synonyms: crookback, crookbacked, gibbous, humpbacked, humped, kyphotic |
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hunched | (adjective) having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect | Synonyms: crooked, round-backed, round-shouldered, stooped, stooping |
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hundred | (adjective) being ten more than ninety | Synonyms: 100, c, one hundred |
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(noun) ten 10s | Synonyms: 100, C, century, one C |
hundredfold | (adverb) by a factor of one hundred | Synonyms: a hundred times |
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hundredth | (adjective) the ordinal number of one hundred in counting order | Synonyms: 100th, centesimal |
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(noun) one part in a hundred equal parts | Synonyms: one-hundredth, one percent |
(noun) position 100 in a countable series of things | - |
hundredweight | (noun) a British unit of weight equivalent to 112 pounds | Synonyms: cwt, long hundredweight |
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(noun) a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds | Synonyms: cental, centner, cwt, quintal, short hundredweight |
(noun) a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms in the metric system | Synonyms: centner, doppelzentner, metric hundredweight |
hunger | (noun) strong desire for something (not food or drink) | Synonyms: hungriness, thirst, thirstiness |
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(noun) a physiological need for food; the consequence of food deprivation | Synonyms: hungriness |
(verb) be hungry; go without food | Synonyms: famish, starve |
(verb) have a craving, appetite, or great desire for | Synonyms: crave, lust, starve, thirst |
(verb) feel the need to eat | - |
hungover | (adjective) Suffering the aftereffects of the consumption of alcohol | - |
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hungrily | (adverb) in the manner of someone who is very hungry | Synonyms: ravenously |
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hungriness | (noun) strong desire for something (not food or drink) | Synonyms: hunger, thirst, thirstiness |
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(noun) prolonged unfulfilled desire or need | Synonyms: longing, yearning |
(noun) a physiological need for food; the consequence of food deprivation | Synonyms: hunger |
hungry | (adjective) feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food | - |
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(adjective) (usually followed by `for') extremely desirous | Synonyms: athirst, thirsty |
hunk | (noun) a large piece of something without definite shape | Synonyms: lump |
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(noun) a well-built sexually attractive man | - |
hunker | (verb) sit on one's heels | Synonyms: crouch, hunker down, scrunch, scrunch up, squat |
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hunt | (noun) the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts | Synonyms: hunting |
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(noun) the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport | Synonyms: hunting |
(noun) the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone | Synonyms: hunting, search |
(noun) an instance of searching for something | - |
(noun) an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport | Synonyms: hunt club |
(verb) pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals) | Synonyms: hunt down, run, track down |
(verb) search (an area) for prey | - |
(verb) seek, search for | - |
(verb) pursue or chase relentlessly | Synonyms: hound, trace |
(verb) chase away, with as with force | - |
(verb) yaw back and forth about a flight path | - |
(verb) oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent | - |
hunted | (adjective) reflecting the fear or terror of one who is hunted | - |
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hunter | (noun) a watch with a hinged metal lid to protect the crystal | Synonyms: hunting watch |
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(noun) someone who hunts game | Synonyms: huntsman |
(noun) a person who searches for something | - |
hunting | (noun) the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts | Synonyms: hunt |
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(noun) the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport | Synonyms: hunt |
(noun) the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone | Synonyms: hunt, search |
huntress | (noun) a woman hunter | - |
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huntsman | (noun) someone who hunts game | Synonyms: hunter |
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