desire
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(verb) feel or have a desire for; want strongly; "I want to go home now; "I want my own room" |
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Synonyms: want |
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Related Words: ambition, begrudge, care, crave, envy, fancy, feel like, go for, hanker, hope, hunger, lech after, like, long, lust, lust after, miss, need, seek, starve, take to, thirst, wish, wish well, yearn |
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(verb) express a desire for |
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Related Words: bespeak, call for, quest, request |
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(noun) an inclination to want things; "a man of many desires" |
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Related Words: greed, hunger, inclination, tendency, thirst |
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(noun) the feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state |
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Related Words: ambition, aspiration, bloodlust, caprice, concupiscence, craving, dream, feeling, impulse, itch, longing, physical attraction, sexual desire, temptation, urge, vagary, want, whim, wish, wishing, yearning |
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(noun) something that is desired |
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Related Words: arousal, materialism, passion, philistinism, rage |
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(verb) expect with desire; "I trust you will behave better from now on"; "I hope she understands that she cannot exepct a raise" |
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Synonyms: hope, trust |
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Related Words: wish |
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