Sekirov Dictionary

want

UK /wɒnt/US /wɑnt/

verb 13
noun 6
forms 7
phrases 5

verb13

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to wish to have something or to do something
- I want you as a friend, not a foe.
- What do you want to eat?
to need something that is missing or has not been done yet
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To desire (to experience desire); to wish.
- You can leave if you want.
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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.
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(informal) To be advised to do or aim for something (compare should, ought).
- You’ll want to repeat this three or four times to get the best result.
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(informal) 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!
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To desire a romantic or (especially) sexual relationship with someone; to lust for.
- Dang, girl! Your brother is gorgeous! I want him so bad!
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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.
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(old-fashioned) To be lacking or deficient or absent.
- There was something wanting in the play.
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(old-fashioned) To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.
- The paupers desperately want.
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(no longer used) To have occasion for (something requisite or useful); to require or need.
- Man wants but little, nor that little long. — 1742
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(no longer used) To lack and be without, to not have (something).
- She wanted anything she needed.
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(no longer used) To lack and perhaps be able or willing to do without.
- For Law, Physick and Divinitie, need so the help of tongs and sciences, as thei can not want them, and yet thei require so a hole mans studie, as thei may parte with no tyme to other lerning, ... — 1797

noun6

A desire, wish, longing.
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Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt.
- Habitual superfluities become actual wants. — 1785
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Lack, absence, deficiency.
- She showed a want of caution in renting her house to complete strangers.
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Poverty.
- Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches, as to conceive how others can be in want. — 1713
(UK) A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.
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(dialect) A mole (Talpa europea).
- Lic. She hath the ears of a want. / Pec. Doth she want ears? — 1592

forms

wanted · wantedst · wanting · wanteth · wants · wantest · wanten

Phrases with want

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