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飢える [ichi1,news1,nf24] ； 餓える； 饑える [rK]
【 うえる [ichi1,news1,nf24] ； かつえる (飢える, 餓える) 】
1. [v1,vi]
▶ to starve
▶ to be famished
▶ to be hungry
2. [v1,vi]
▶ to be starved of (e.g. love)
▶ to be thirsty for (e.g. knowledge)
▶ to be hungry for

Conjugations


History:
4. A 2024-03-05 10:46:20  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
3. A* 2024-03-05 07:02:38  penname01
  Refs: 
Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーー─┬─────────┬───────╮
│ 飢えて │ 179,919 │ 91.1% │
│ 餓えて │  17,659 │  8.9% │
│ 饑えて │      21 │  0.0% │
╰─ーーー─┴─────────┴───────╯
  Diff: 
@@ -14,0 +15 @@
+<ke_inf>&rK;</ke_inf>
2. A 2017-10-18 01:30:02  Rene Malenfant <...address hidden...>
1. A* 2017-10-17 21:21:45  Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
  Refs: 
gg5, daij
daijr: "古くは，水がなくて渇く意にも用いた"
  Comments: 
Added sense.
I don't think it ever refers to thirst (in the literal sense) nowadays.
  Diff: 
@@ -31 +31 @@
-<gloss>to thirst</gloss>
+<gloss>to be famished</gloss>
@@ -33,0 +34,7 @@
+<sense>
+<pos>&v1;</pos>
+<pos>&vi;</pos>
+<gloss>to be starved of (e.g. love)</gloss>
+<gloss>to be thirsty for (e.g. knowledge)</gloss>
+<gloss>to be hungry for</gloss>
+</sense>

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