phrasal verb · neutral
go hungry
UK/ɡəʊ ˈhʌŋ.ɡri/US/ɡoʊ ˈhʌŋ.ɡri/go HUN·gry
task2speaking
to not have enough food to eat; to suffer hunger
Examples
“During the famine many families had to go hungry for months.”
“No one should have to go hungry in a wealthy country.”
“If prices keep rising, more people will go hungry.”
Band 8 sentence
“Without emergency aid, whole communities could go hungry within weeks.”
Collocations
- go hungry for months
- prevent people from going hungry
Word family
go hungry vgoes hungry vwent hungry vgone hungry v
Common mistakes
I go hungry last year→I went hungry last year
We had to go to hungry→We had to go hungry
Say it for a higher band
5be hungry→6not have enough food→7+go hungry
Synonyms
starve
Easily confused
starve
“During the blockade, many townspeople began to starve.”
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