want
Usage
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.
Example Sentences
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I wanted to throw it back into people’s face.
From Los Angeles Times
“It’s interesting that even these bad guys, if you want to call them that, are pretty careful about not hurting people.”
From Los Angeles Times
Instead of creating a chaos, you want him to take the chaos away and calm things down.
From BBC
They don’t want judges to scrutinize if civil penalties are disproportionate.
The IT director was allegedly pulled aside and told “that ‘the boss’ wanted the server deleted.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
