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"hunger" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often appetite (8 letters).
Definitions
be hungry; go without food
Word origin
From Middle English hunger, from Old English hungor (“hunger, desire; famine”), from Proto-West Germanic *hungr, from Proto-Germanic *hungruz, *hunhruz (“hunger”), from Proto-Indo-European *kenk- (“to burn, smart, desire, hunger, thirst”).
Used in a sentence
“I have a hunger to win.”
“O sacred hunger of ambitious minds!”
“When gangsters bump my shit, can they feel my hunger?”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Appetite for food”6 letters
02“Need for food”6 letters
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