굶주리다
Meanings
Verb
1. to starve; to be hungry (intransitive)
2. to be hungry for (knowledge etc.) (figurative, figuratively, intransitive)
Pronunciation
gumjurida
Examples2
굶주리면 풀뿌리라도 캐먹는다.
When you are starving, you will dig up and eat even the roots of weeds.
올해 농사가 흉년이 들어 수많은 사람들이 굶주리고 있다.
Thousands are going hungry because of the failure of this year’s harvest.