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Want

verb

(past & past part. wanted; pres. part. wanting)

1.

Feel or have a desire for; want strongly. Synonym: desire. "I want my own room"

2.

Have need of. Synonyms: need, require.

3.

Hunt or look for; want for a particular reason. "Uncle Sam wants you"

4.

Wish or demand the presence of.

5.

Be without, lack; be deficient in. "Want the strength to go on living" , "Flood victims wanting food and shelter"

noun

1.

A state of extreme poverty. Synonyms: deprivation, neediness, privation.

2.

The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable. Synonyms: deficiency, lack. "Water is the critical deficiency in desert regions" , "For want of a nail the shoe was lost"

3.

Anything that is necessary but lacking. Synonym: need. "I tried to supply his wants"

4.

A specific feeling of desire. Synonyms: wish, wishing. "He was above all wishing and desire"

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"Want" Quotes from Famous Books

... the Silver Pit—an' there we'll let 'em lie; Cod on the Dogger—oh, we'll fetch 'em by an' by; War on the water—an' it's time to serve an' die, For there's wild work doin' on the North Sea ground. An' it's "Wake up, Johnnie!" they want you at the trawlin' (With your long sea-boots and your tarry old tarpaulin); All across the bitter seas duty comes a-callin' In the Winter's weather off the North Sea ground. It's well we've learned to laugh at fear—the sea has taught us how; It's well we've shaken hands with death—we'll ...

— Mr. Punch's History of the Great War • Punch

... weathercock registering the drift of all his petty hopes and fears. I see the left ear go forward and prepare for a desperate shy at that wheelbarrow. He knows a wheelbarrow familiarly—there is one in his stall all day—but I am taking him a road he does not want to go, and so the hypocrite is going to pretend that barrow is of a dangerous sort. I prepare to apply a counter-irritant: he sees it with the corner of his eye, and both ears turn ...

— Concerning Animals and Other Matters • E.H. Aitken, (AKA Edward Hamilton)

... finished, the queen was so delighted that she ran with it in her lap to the king, who ordered it to be put in a cistern full of water, with me in it, by way of trial; where I could not manage my two sculls,[68] or little oars, for want of room. ...

— Gulliver's Travels - Into Several Remote Regions of the World • Jonathan Swift

... on Socialism, let go with a warning, on suspended sentence—canceled only by death—making his mark upon the walls of every well-furnished house in England or America; Jean Francois Millet, starved out in art-loving Paris, his pictures refused at the Salon, living next door to abject want in Barbizon, dubbed the "wild man of the woods," dead and turned to dust, his pictures commanding such sums as Paris never before paid; Walt Whitman, issuing his book at his own expense, publishers ...

— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 • Elbert Hubbard

... talking about freedom, I didn't know what freedom was. I was there standin' right up and looking at 'em when they told us we was free. And master said, 'You all free now. You can go where you want to.' ...

— Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States - Volume II. Arkansas Narratives. Part I • Work Projects Administration

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