Sekirov Dictionary

need

/niːd/

verb 5
noun 3
forms 7
phrases 3

verb5

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to be unable to live or do well without something
- Living things need water to survive.
- You do not always need to go to the library to study. You may use the Internet.
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To want strongly; to feel that one must have something.
- After ten days of hiking, I needed a shower and a shave.
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To be obliged or required (to do something).
- I need not go if I don't want to, need I?
- I was wondering if I need fill in more forms. - No, that's the only one you need fill out.
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To be required; to be necessary.
- When we have done it, we have done our duty, and all that is in our power, and indeed all that needs. — 1694
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(no longer used) To be necessary (to someone).
- More ample spirit, then hitherto was wount, / Here needes me […] — 1590

noun3

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A requirement for something; something needed.
- There's no need to speculate; we can easily find out for sure.
- She grew irritated with his constant need for attention.
A desire or craving for the satisfaction of a requirement perceived as essential or primal.
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Lack of means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.
- Famine is in thy cheeks; Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes. — 1591

forms

needed · neededst · needing · needeth · needs · needest · needst

Phrases with need

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