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(v)
To want; to wish for earnestly.
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(n)
A desire, hope, or longing for something or for something to happen.
a specific feeling of desire
(transitive) To have an absolute requirement for.
Naturally to demand (something) as indispensable; to need, to call for as necessary.
(uncountable) The state of being deprived; lack.
The state of being very poor, and lacking the basic necessities of life.
(transitive, stative) To be without, not to have, to need, to require.
(countable) An insufficiency, especially of something essential to health.
(ambitransitive) To desire strongly, so as to satisfy an appetite; to long or yearn for.
(adj)
Feeling desire; eagerly wishing; eager to obtain.
(intransitive) To have a strong desire or ambition to achieve something.
A strong desire; an itch to do something.
British standard spelling of favor.
(transitive) To be in the habit of choosing something rather than something else; to favor; to like better.
Worthy to be desired; pleasing; agreeable.
(ambitransitive) To make happy or satisfy; to give pleasure to.
The state of being willing
To pick; to make the choice of; to select.
(transitive) To ponder, to go over in one's mind.
Necessary; being required.
To bring or recall to mind; to remember; bear or keep in mind.
(heading) To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.
(adv)
(archaic) Either directly or indirectly preceded or followed by an auxiliary verb, often must: of necessity or need; necessarily, indispensably.
Necessary; obligatory; mandatory.
Required, essential, whether logically inescapable or needed in order to achieve a desired result or avoid some penalty.
(transitive) To perceive the truth or factuality of; to be certain of; to be certain that.
(ambitransitive) To resolve (a contest, problem, dispute, etc.); to choose, determine, or settle.
Something that is intended.
The desire to purchase goods and services.
(transitive) To continue in (a course or mode of action); to not intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.
To intend.
(transitive, formal) To wait for.
To try to achieve a result; to make strenuous effort; to try earnestly and persistently.
Difficult to endure; arduous.
To try.
(intransitive) To delay movement or action until some event or time; to remain neglected or in readiness.
To attempt; to endeavour. Followed by infinitive.
(transitive or with a subjunctive clause) To ask for (something).
Prepared for immediate action or use.
(transitive or ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.
(ambitransitive) To predict or believe that something will happen
To request or petition.
(ambitransitive) To try to find; to look for; to search for.
(transitive) To allow to, not to prevent (+ infinitive, but usually without to).
To move toward the speaker.
(rare) To express as a thing; to reify.
(uncountable) A deep caring for the existence of another.
To demand ownership of.
(intransitive) To see imaginary events in one's mind while sleeping.
(ditransitive) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
(transitive) To resentfully or discontentedly desire (something someone else has that one lacks).
A state of being away or withdrawn from a place or from companionship
To greet with a Sieg Heil.
(transitive) To dislike intensely or greatly.
An extreme state of poverty, in which a person is almost completely lacking in resources or means of support.
(transitive) To grasp or grip.
A lack or deficiency; an insufficient amount.
(transitive) To feel resentment over; to consider as an affront.
(uncountable) Extreme need or want; destitution, poverty; (countable) an instance of this.
The quality or state of being poor; lack of money
Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.
(intransitive, stative) To suffer pain; to be the source of, or be in, pain, especially continued dull pain; to be distressed.
(transitive) To pronounce.
(now colloquial US, Jamaica) To madden, to anger, to frustrate.
Close attention; concern; responsibility.
(transitive) To plead in favour of; to defend by argument, before a tribunal or the public; to support, vindicate, or recommend publicly.
(intransitive, stative) To perceive sounds through the ear.
To try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes.
(transitive) To sample the flavor of something orally.
To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing.
(ambitransitive) To consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it.
(intransitive) To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.
(intransitive) To produce musical or harmonious sounds with one’s voice.
Having been placed in a bag.
(colloquial, regional or nonstandard) Have/has.
(heading) To reach out with one's voice.
(ambitransitive) To consume (a liquid) through the mouth.
(of meat) Preserved in salt.
The yellow-crowned bishop, Euplectes afer, especially the southern subspecies taha.
A city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.
A surname.
A formal message requesting something.
(colloquial) A modal used to express a future action that is being planned or prepared for in the present.
Alternative spelling of lookin'.
(colloquial) Synonym of have got to, have to [Expressing obligation; used with have.]
(N)
"Wanna" is a song by South Korean girl group Kara from their second studio album, Revolution.
A unisex given name from French, equivalent to English Sasha.
A female given name.
Resentful desire of something possessed by another or others (but not limited to material possessions).
(intransitive, also figuratively) To have a strong desire for something or to do something; to long for or to do something.
Having much distance in space from one end to the other.