Thirsty

Definition

thirst /θɜ:st/ n ၁။ (က) [U, sing] ေရဆာျခင္း။ ေရငတ္ျခင္း။ quench (ie satisfy) one's thirst with a long drink of water ❍ Working in the sun soon gave us a (powerful) thirst. (ခ) [U] ေရငတ္ျခင္း။ They lost their way in the desert and died of thirst. ၂။ [sing] ~ ( for sth ) ျပင္းျပသည့္ အာသာဆႏၵ။ a/ the thirst for knowledge/ fame/ revenge. v ( arch ) ေရဆာသည္။ ေရငတ္သည္။ ❏ thirst for sth [ PHRV ] အာသာဆႏၵျပင္းျပသည္။ thirsting for revenge. ❏ thirstily /-Çli/ adv အငမ္းမရ (ေသာက္သည္)။့ They drank thirstily. ❏ thirsty adj ( -ier,-iest ) ၁။ ~ ( for sth ) ေရဆာေသာ။ အာသာဆႏၵ ျပင္းျပေသာ။ be/ feel thirsty ❍ All this talking is making me thirsty. ❍ ( fig ) The team is thirsty for success. ၂။ ( infml ) ေရငတ္ေစေသာ။ Gardening is thirsty work. ၃။ ~ ( for sth ) ေရငတ္ေနေသာ။ thirsty crops ❍ The soil is thirsty for rain.

Examples

1. [quench your thirst] : She drank and drank but couldn’t quench her thirst.
2. Villagers were nearly dying of thirst when water supplies arrived.
3. [thirst for] : The materials are designed to satisfy young people’s thirst for knowledge.