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Want   /wɑnt/  /wɔnt/   Listen
Want

verb
(past & past part. wanted; pres. part. wanting)
1.
Feel or have a desire for; want strongly.  Synonym: desire.  "I want my own room"
2.
Have need of.  Synonyms: need, require.
3.
Hunt or look for; want for a particular reason.  "Uncle Sam wants you"
4.
Wish or demand the presence of.
5.
Be without, lack; be deficient in.  "Want the strength to go on living" , "Flood victims wanting food and shelter"
noun
1.
A state of extreme poverty.  Synonyms: deprivation, neediness, privation.
2.
The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable.  Synonyms: deficiency, lack.  "Water is the critical deficiency in desert regions" , "For want of a nail the shoe was lost"
3.
Anything that is necessary but lacking.  Synonym: need.  "I tried to supply his wants"
4.
A specific feeling of desire.  Synonyms: wish, wishing.  "He was above all wishing and desire"



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"Want" Quotes from Famous Books



... too. You needn't think there's anything wrong." She looked at them with an expression as if she was ready to spring at the slightest intimation of distrust on their part. "It is only just that people think they want young help and they are going to have it. I've got the place and I'm in clover, and it's worth something looking so much better, though it don't make much difference to me. All I care about nowadays is ...
— The Debtor - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... more of this pilfering business, and now they're beginning to find out it isn't all in my camp by a damned sight. I want that letter copied at once." Then with a glance at Gray, who had whipped off his cap and was standing in respectful attitude, he changed his tone from the querulous, half-treble of complaint. "What's this you'd best leave ...
— Found in the Philippines - The Story of a Woman's Letters • Charles King
... freed from him without the approbation of the civil and ecclesiastical power. A man may be unhappy, because he is not so rich as another; but he is not to seize upon another's property with his own hand.' BOSWELL. 'But, Sir, this lady does not want that the contract should be dissolved; she only argues that she may indulge herself in gallantries with equal freedom as her husband does, provided she takes care not to introduce a spurious issue into his family. You know, ...
— The Life Of Johnson, Volume 3 of 6 • Boswell
... I am afraid," said the chemist who had originally spoken. "This smoke could remain floating in the atmosphere for weeks, and the only wonder to me is how they ever expect to get rid of it, when they think their enemies have gone and they want some sunshine again." ...
— Edison's Conquest of Mars • Garrett Putman Serviss
... of Coleman, M'Intosh, Norman, and Byrne, who, 'tis confessed, were desirous of leaving the ship), she must either have gone down with us, or, to prevent it, we must have lightened her of the provisions and other necessary articles, and thereby have perished for want—dreadful alternative! ...
— The Eventful History Of The Mutiny And Piratical Seizure - Of H.M.S. Bounty: Its Cause And Consequences • Sir John Barrow


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