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want
noun as in desire
noun as in lack, need
verb as in desire
verb as in lack, need
Example Sentences
It has enabled her to meet people like herself, and she wants women to know that “prison doesn’t define you.”
She acknowledges that she doesn’t want to interfere in listeners’ experience of her music.
Throughout Sasaki’s highly anticipated and long-awaited posting process and free agency, the Dodgers knew the main pillars they wanted their courtship to be built upon:
And so when the winds swept down from those mountains the night of Jan. 7, carrying embers that burned some 7,000 structures, Rodney didn’t want to leave, his daughter said.
“People are scared to go to the grocery store,” said a farm labor contractor in Ventura County who works with many undocumented workers and did not want his name used out of fear of reprisal.
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When To Use
What are other ways to say want?
The verb want, usually colloquial in use, suggests a feeling of lack or need that imperatively demands fulfillment: People all over the world want peace. Wish implies the feeling of an impulse toward attainment or possession of something; the strength of the feeling may be of greater or lesser intensity: I wish I could go home. Desire, a more formal verb, suggests a strong wish: They desire liberation.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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