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desire

[dih-zahyuhr] / dɪˈzaɪər /




VERB
ask, request
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG
WEAK
not want


Usage

What are other ways to say desire? Desire, a formal verb, suggests a strong wish: They desire liberation. 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. Want, usually colloquial in use, suggests a feeling of lack or need that imperatively demands fulfillment: People all over the world want peace.

Example Sentences

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There is also a feeling Maguire is happy in his surroundings too - that he is settled with his family in the north-west and has no aching desire to start again somewhere else just yet.

From BBC

But six games into the 1981-82 season, Johnson expressed his desire to be traded because he was unhappy playing for Westhead.

From Los Angeles Times

So she reminded herself that her desire to go to bed early doesn’t make her boring or anti-fun; it means that she’s putting her health, her family and her productivity first.

From The Wall Street Journal

"It's that desire to step out of the commercial world, step out of all those sorts of bits of life, step back from phone use."

From BBC

Following the latest revelations, historian David Olusoga told BBC Newsnight there is now "a desperate desire within government and within the palace to draw a firewall… between this crisis and the wider monarchy".

From BBC