Translation for "athirst" to spanish

Athirst

adjective

• sediento
• ávido

Translation examples

sediento adjective

I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
Yo les daré de beber a los sedientos, de la fuente... del agua de la vida eterna.

Who then will remain athirst!
Quién permanecerá sediento?

The Janissaries itched to be on the other shore, athirst for victory.
Los jenízaros, sedientos de victoria, ardían en deseos de cruzar al otro lado.

The day has been hot, and I am very much athirst.
El día ha sido caluroso y estoy sediento. —¡Ay de mí!

Might not a man athirst, if he came that way, stay there?
Si un hombre sediento llegaba a ese pasadizo, ¿no se quedaría allí?

He was athirst for vengeance, as he had shown me, and determined that neither I nor Gambara should escape.
Estaba sediento de venganza, y no quería que ni el cardenal ni yo escapáramos de la ciudad.

But, though I may fail to realise it at the time, this needs must leave the heart athirst.
Pero, aun cuando no me dé cuenta en un momento determinado, esto tiene que dejar, necesariamente, el corazón sediento.

It was important, the colonel expounded, that the peasants who were approaching Koropta in force, athirst to see the miracle, be prevented from becoming excited.
El coronel le comunicó que era preciso calmar a los campesinos sedientos de milagros que acudían a Koropta.

she would fain create afresh, and cannot, except it be by destroying: in all her energies she is athirst for mortal food, and with all her forces she labours in desire of death.
todas sus energías están sedientas de alimento mortal y con todas sus fuerzas lucha deseando la muerte.

In their wake came the handful of low country baboons and the thousands of the hill clan—savage, wiry, dog–like creatures, athirst for blood.
Tras ellos echaron a andar el puñado de babuinos de las tierras bajas y los millares de cuadrumanos de la región de las colinas, un clan de seres salvajes, fuertes, sedientos de sangre.

‘I don’t want to see it … I don’t want to,’ Fidelma says as she shields her eyes, but the knife is going in, in, as this woman, gnawed with hatred and athirst for revenge, will not let up.
—No quiero ver eso… no quiero —protesta Fidelma, cerrando los ojos, pero la hoja del cuchillo la penetra, hasta el fondo, y la mujer carcomida por el odio y sedienta de venganza no se resigna.

he was one of your play-up-and-fear-God paladins, full of zeal and athirst for glory, was John, and said his prayers and didn’t drink and thought women were either nuns or mothers.
Era uno de esos paladines llenos de temor de Dios y de celo y sedientos de gloria, ese John, que rezaba sus plegarias, no bebía y no pensaba en mujeres, ya fueran monjas o madres.