Definitions from Wiktionary (Want)
▸ verb: (transitive) To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave, hanker, or demand.
▸ verb: (by extension) To make it easy or tempting to do something undesirable, or to make it hard or challenging to refrain from doing it.
▸ verb: (transitive, in particular) To wish, desire, or demand to see, have the presence of or do business with.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To desire (to experience desire); to wish.
▸ verb: (colloquial, usually second person, often future tense) To be advised to do something (compare should, ought).
▸ verb: (transitive, now colloquial) To lack and be in need of or require (something, such as a noun or verbal noun).
▸ verb: (transitive, now rare) To have occasion for (something requisite or useful); to require or need.
▸ verb: (intransitive, dated) To be lacking or deficient or absent.
▸ verb: (intransitive, dated) To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.
▸ verb: (transitive, archaic) To lack and be without, to not have (something).
▸ verb: (transitive, obsolete, by extension) To lack and perhaps be able or willing to do without.
▸ verb: To desire a romantic or (especially) sexual relationship with someone; to lust for.
▸ noun: (countable) A desire, wish, longing.
▸ noun: (countable, often followed by of) Lack, absence, deficiency.
▸ noun: (uncountable) Poverty.
▸ noun: Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt.
▸ noun: (UK, mining) A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.
▸ noun: (dialectal) A mole (Talpa europea).
▸ noun: A personification of want.
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▸ verb: (transitive) To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave, hanker, or demand.
▸ verb: (by extension) To make it easy or tempting to do something undesirable, or to make it hard or challenging to refrain from doing it.
▸ verb: (transitive, in particular) To wish, desire, or demand to see, have the presence of or do business with.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To desire (to experience desire); to wish.
▸ verb: (colloquial, usually second person, often future tense) To be advised to do something (compare should, ought).
▸ verb: (transitive, now colloquial) To lack and be in need of or require (something, such as a noun or verbal noun).
▸ verb: (transitive, now rare) To have occasion for (something requisite or useful); to require or need.
▸ verb: (intransitive, dated) To be lacking or deficient or absent.
▸ verb: (intransitive, dated) To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.
▸ verb: (transitive, archaic) To lack and be without, to not have (something).
▸ verb: (transitive, obsolete, by extension) To lack and perhaps be able or willing to do without.
▸ verb: To desire a romantic or (especially) sexual relationship with someone; to lust for.
▸ noun: (countable) A desire, wish, longing.
▸ noun: (countable, often followed by of) Lack, absence, deficiency.
▸ noun: (uncountable) Poverty.
▸ noun: Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt.
▸ noun: (UK, mining) A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.
▸ noun: (dialectal) A mole (Talpa europea).
▸ noun: A personification of want.
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