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To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave, hanker, or demand. (defdate)
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(RQ:Maxwell Mirror and the Lamp)
{{quote-journal|en|year=2013|month=July-August|author=Henry Petroski
2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- I want to find a supermarket. — Oh, okay. The supermarket is at 1500 Irving Street. It is near the apartment. — Great!
To make it easy or tempting to do something undesirable, or to make it hard or challenging to refrain from doing it.
To wish, desire{{, or demand to see, have the presence of or do business with.
{{quote-book|en|year=2010|author=Fred Vargas|title=The Chalk Circle Man|publisher=Vintage Canada|isbn=9780307374035|page=75
2019 May 5, "(w)", ''Game of Thrones'' season 8 episode 4 (written by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss):
- TYRION: You don't want it?
- BRAN: I don't really want anymore.
To be advised to do something (q), (m).
To lack and be in need of or require (something, such as a noun or verbal noun). (defdate)
{{quote-text|en|year=1741|title=The Gentleman's and London Magazine: Or Monthly Chronologer, 1741-1794|page=559
{{quote-text|en|year=1839|title=Chambers's Journal|page=123
{{quote-text|en|year=1847|title=The American Protestant|page=27
(RQ:Carroll Alice)
(RQ:Woolf Jacob's Room)
To have occasion for (something requisite or useful); to require or need.
(RQ:Young Night-Thoughts)
(RQ:Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield)
(RQ:Thoreau Walden)
(RQ:Purchas Pilgrimes)
(RQ:Dryden Miscellaneous Works)
(RQ:Pope Essay on Criticism)
To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.
(RQ:Jonson Volpone)
To lack and be without, to not have (something). (defdate)
(RQ:Burton Melancholy)wants means to exercise his worth, hath not a poor office to manage.
(RQ:Spectator) that your whip wanted a lash to it.
(RQ:Swift Gulliver's Travels)
{{quote-text|en|year=1765|author=James Merrick|title=Psalams
{{quote-text|en|year=1981|author=A. D. Hope|chapter=His Coy Mistress to Mr. Marvell|chapterurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20210716071607/https://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/hope-a-d/poems/v-andrew-marvell-and-his-coy-mistress-0143005|title=A Book of Answers
(RQ:Purchas Pilgrimes) which the Kings of Assyria had left for the maintenance of this Temple sacrifices, after the ouerthrow thereof, was shared among the Chaldzans; which they by this attempt were like to lose, and therefore were willing to want his presence.
1789 Robert Burns: Epigram On Francis Grose The Antiquary
- The Devil got notice that Grose was a-dyingSo whip! at the summons, old Satan came flying;But when he approached where poor Francis lay moaning,And saw each bed-post with its burthen a-groaning,Astonish'd, confounded, cries Satan-"By God,I'll want him, ere I take such a damnable load!"
{{quote-text|en|year=1797|title=The European Magazine, and London Review|page=226
1880 Robert Louis Stevenson. Kidnapped
- "Are ye sharp-set?" he asked, glancing at about the level of my knee. "Ye can eat that drop parritch."I said I feared it was his own supper. "Oh," said he, "I can do fine wanting it, I'll take the ale, though, for it slockens my cough." He drank the cup about half out, still keeping an eye upon me as he drank...
To desire a romantic or sexual relationship with someone; to lust for.
(quote-song); (w); (w)|authorlabel=no|title=(w)|album=(w)|date=27 November 1981|artist=(w)|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPudE8nDog0|text=Don't, don't you want me? / You know I can't believe it when I hear that you won't see me / Don't, don't you want me? / You know I don't believe you when you say that you don't need me
(quote-song); (w); Jasper Harris; (w)|authorlabel=no|title=(w)|album=(w)|date=15 September 2023|artist=(w)|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AtiHCDGZ8c|text=Yeah, you're loo- (loo-loo-) lookin' at me like I'm some sweet escape / Obvious that you want me, but I said...
Lack, absence, deficiency. (+obj)
(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 6-2)
(RQ:King James Version)
(senseid) Poverty.
{{quote-text|en|year=1713|author=Jonathan Swift|title=s:The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 4/A Preface to Bishop Burnet's Introduction|A Preface to Bishop Burnet's Introduction
Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt.
{{quote-text|en|year=1785|author=William Paley|title=Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy
A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.
A mole ((taxlink)).
(quote-book)
(syn)
a mitten, type of glove in which four fingers get only one section, besides the thumb
(hyper)
the rigging, ropes supporting masts and sails aboard a ship. shroud, sideways support for a mast
various types of nets and snares for fishing, hunting or farming
horse tackle
(infl of)
(tlb) (alt form)
a wall
(inflection of)
(alt form)