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Wanted   /wˈɑntəd/  /wˈɔntɪd/  /wˈɔnɪd/   Listen
Wanted

adjective
1.
Desired or wished for or sought.  "A wanted criminal" , "A wanted poster"
2.
Characterized by feeling or showing fond affection for.  Synonyms: cherished, precious, treasured.  "Children are precious" , "A treasured heirloom" , "So good to feel wanted"


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"



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"Wanted" Quotes from Famous Books



... rock, which became much more compact and hard as the depth of excavation was increased. Besides avoiding the risk of encumbering the boats with a number of men who had not yet got the full command of the oar in a breach of sea, the writer had another motive for leaving them behind. He wanted to examine the site of the building without interruption, and to take the comparative levels of the different inequalities of its area; and as it would have been painful to have seen men standing idle upon the Bell Rock, where all moved with activity, ...
— Records of a Family of Engineers • Robert Louis Stevenson
... weeks very long and dreary at the Hall. Captain Harry had gone back to his ship, and of course Agnes had gone with him. They had wanted her to stay at home this voyage, but Agnes had lifted such appealing eyes, and clung in so much alarm to Harry at the bare idea of his leaving her, that they had given it up at once. So Rose, with no companion except Grace, found it very dull, ...
— Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters - A Novel • May Agnes Fleming
... of newly enfranchised voters, transferred the struggle over the Irish Question from Ireland to Great Britain. The position taken up by the average English Home Ruler was, it will be remembered, simple and intelligible. The Irish had stated in the proper constitutional way what they wanted, and that, in the first flush of a victorious democracy, when counting heads irrespective of contents was the popular method of arriving at political truth, was assumed to be precisely what they ought to ...
— Ireland In The New Century • Horace Plunkett
... friends, and there was not a thing that Bessie would not have done for her big brother, who was her hero. What he wanted with so much money ...
— Robert Hardy's Seven Days - A Dream and Its Consequences • Charles Monroe Sheldon
... attached to that house?" quoth she, in accents of mistrust. She wanted to say more. I saw it in her eyes that she was wondering was there treachery underlying an action so singularly disinterested ...
— The Shame of Motley • Raphael Sabatini


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