hunger
n
1 appetite, emptiness, esurience, famine, hungriness, ravenousness, starvation, voracity
2 ache, appetence, appetite, craving, desire, greediness, itch, lust, thirst, yearning, yen (informal)
vb
3 ache, crave, desire, hanker, hope, itch, long, pine, starve, thirst, want, wish, yearn