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