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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



... Eveline, unbent by adversity and want, gradually lost effect on the defenders of the castle; and proposals for surrender were urged and discussed by a tumultuary council, into which not only the inferior officers, but many of the common men, had thrust themselves, as in a period ...
— The Betrothed • Sir Walter Scott
... carpenter Abel Bush; while one of her youngest though most active A.B.s was Billy True Blue Freeborn. She had a black cook too. He was not a very good one; but he played the fiddle, and that was considered to make amends for his want of skill. ...
— True Blue • W.H.G. Kingston
... morning to night, for next to nothing. It ought not to be allowed in a civilised country. And on the top of all this slavery we are expected to be very much obliged for the opportunity of working at all. You chuck us a crust just as you would chuck a bone to a dog, and then you want us to go down on our knees and pour blessings on Balfour's head. We're tired of such stuff; but, thank God, we shall soon have things in our own hands. All these men are small farmers, or small farmers' sons. They can't get a living out of the land, and they are ...
— Ireland as It Is - And as It Would be Under Home Rule • Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)
... content him, which was all they could raise, that sum should be sent aboard, and the governor would rely on the honour of Captain Clipperton for the release of the ship. Clipperton accepted this proposal, but as his bark was in want of provisions and water, he sent word to the governor, that every kind of provisions and drink were not to be considered as within the capitulation. This was readily agreed to, the money was sent on board, and as soon as the provisions were got ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume X • Robert Kerr
... "They want to worry us enough so that the men will lose sleep," said a soldier standing near. "But no one will bother about a few shells. The men will get into the bomb proof shelters until daylight. It is a waste of ...
— Shelled by an Unseen Foe • James Fiske


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