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want

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Verb
  1. 1

    To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave, hanker, or demand.

    • I want you as a friend, not a foe.
    • What do you want to eat?  I want you to leave.  I never wanted to go back to live with my mother.
    • The game developers of Candy Crush want you to waste large, copious amounts of your money on in-game purchases to buy boosters and lives.
  2. 2

    To make it easy or tempting to do something undesirable, or to make it hard or challenging to refrain from doing it.

    • The game developers of Candy Crush want you to waste large, copious amounts of your money on in-game purchases to buy boosters and lives.
    • Depression wants you to feel like the world is dark and that you are not worthy of happiness. The first step to making your life better from this day forward is to stop believing these lies.
  3. 3

    To wish, desire, or demand to see, have the presence of or do business with.

    • Ma’am, you are exactly the professional we want for this job.
    • Danish police want him for embezzlement.
  4. 4

    To desire (to experience desire); to wish.

    • You can leave if you want.
  5. 5

    To be advised to do or aim for something .

    • You’ll want to repeat this three or four times to get the best result.
  6. 6

    To lack and be in need of or require (something, such as a noun or verbal noun).

    • That chair wants fixing and a clean.
    • What you really want is a good smack!
  7. 7

    To have occasion for (something requisite or useful); to require or need.

  8. 8

    To be lacking or deficient or absent.

    • There was something wanting in the play.
  9. 9

    To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.

    • The paupers desperately want.
  10. 10

    To lack and be without, to not have (something).

    • She wanted anything she needed.
  11. 11

    To lack and perhaps be able or willing to do without.

  12. 12

    To desire a romantic or sexual relationship with someone; to lust for.

    • Dang, girl! Your brother is gorgeous! I want him so bad!
Noun
  1. 1

    A desire, wish, longing.

  2. 2

    Lack, absence, deficiency. [ with of]

    • She showed a want of caution in renting her house to complete strangers.
  3. 3

    Poverty.

  4. 4

    Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt.

  5. 5

    A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.

Noun
  1. 1

    A mole (Talpa europea).

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