Thirst vs Itch - What's the difference?
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A sensation of dryness in the throat associated with a craving for liquids, produced by deprivation of drink, or by some other cause (as fear, excitement, etc.) which arrests the secretion of the pharyngeal mucous membrane; hence, the condition producing this sensation.
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IV
(figuratively) A want and eager desire after anything; a craving or longing; — usually with for, of, or after; as, the thirst for gold.
To be thirsty.
* Bible, Exodus xvii. 3
To desire.
* Bible, Psalms xlii. 2
A sensation felt on an area of the skin that causes a person or animal to want to scratch.
A desire or want.
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To feel itchy; to feel a need to be scratched.
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To want or desire.
To cause to feel an itch.
(colloquial) To scratch or rub so as to relieve an itch.
* 2002 , M D Huddleston, Missing Paige :
* 2002 January 4, "Cyd" (username), Itching'', in alt.support.mult-sclerosis, ''Usenet :
* 2003 November 21, "Jim Patterson" (username), Behavior Therapy for Itchy Clothes?'', in alt.support.ocd, ''Usenet :
* 2003 , Ray Emerson, The Riddle of Cthulhu :
* 2004 , Philip Smucker, Al Qaeda's Great Escape: The Military and the Media on Terror's Trail :
Thirst is a related term of itch.
As nouns the difference between thirst and itch
is that thirst is a sensation of dryness in the throat associated with a craving for liquids, produced by deprivation of drink, or by some other cause (as fear, excitement, etc) which arrests the secretion of the pharyngeal mucous membrane; hence, the condition producing this sensation while itch is a sensation felt on an area of the skin that causes a person or animal to want to scratch.As verbs the difference between thirst and itch
is that thirst is to be thirsty while itch is to feel itchy; to feel a need to be scratched.thirst
English
Noun
(en noun)- "We haven't one chance for life in a hundred thousand if we don't find food and water upon Caprona. This water coming out of the cliff is not salt; but neither is it fit to drink, though each of us has drunk. It is fair to assume that inland the river is fed by pure streams, that there are fruits and herbs and game. Shall we lie out here and die of thirst and starvation with a land of plenty possibly only a few hundred yards away? We have the means for navigating a subterranean river. Are we too cowardly to utilize this means?"
Synonyms
* (figuratively) craving, longingSee also
* hungerVerb
(en verb)- The people thirsted there for water.
- My soul thirsteth for the living God.
- I thirst for knowledge and education will sate me.
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English
(wikipedia itch)Alternative forms
* (noun) (l), (l), (l) (in Scotland)Noun
(es)Derived terms
* barber's itch * itchy * jock itch * seven-year itchVerb
(es)- Capulet: ... Speak not, reply not, do not answer me; / My fingers itch . Wife, we scarce thought us blest / That God had lent us but this only child; / But now I see this one is one too much, / And that we have a curse in having her: / Out on her, hilding!
- He started learning to drive and he has been itching for opportunities to practice ever since.
- "What makes you suspect him?" Max asked as he itched his neck.
- I have to take both shoes and socks off! If I go bare foot I'm ok! I also get itching on my r/palm of my hand. I itch it so much that it's raw!
- Basically I go through a half hour of trying to figure out of it is an fake OCD itch or a regular itch before I itch it (if I determine it's a "fake" itch, then I try not to itch it).
- Ulysses thumped his side and itched his back side, then slipped into his car.
- But when we asked more about the famous man whose specter still commanded the heights, the guard just sneered at me, pointed his gun back toward the road with one hand, and itched his chin with the other.