Hunger
Needing
Hunger and needing are semantically related in want something topic. Sometimes you can use "Hunger" instead a verb "Needing".
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Grant learns that his werewolf hunger can be satisfied through extended oral contact with a human's skin, without needing to kill them.
Source: Webcomic / Grant -
The most lethal example would be the 'Hunger Plan' (seizing grain from Soviet farmers and exporting it to Germany so the former would die without needing to be executed).
- The first time he does it, he goes from "invincible and needing an All Your Powers Combined to make me flinch" to "rant about my hunger and break stuff, then die to one soccer ball/clump of rubble to the crotch".
Source: Clipped Wing Angel
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Needing and Hunger. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/hunger/needing
Hunger & Needing. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/hunger/needing>.
Needing or Hunger. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/hunger/needing.
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