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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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I am always, even in Nevada, Your loving niece, DESIRE.

From The Preliminaries And Other Stories by Comer, Cornelia A. P.

This uneasiness we may call, as it is, DESIRE; which is an uneasiness of the mind for want of some absent good.

From An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by Locke, John

Here I lie, worn down to a mere throbbing fever-point; I breathe and nothing more, and yet I DESIRE!

From A Passionate Pilgrim by James, Henry

Yet, through his dreams, a wandering fire, Still, still she flits, THE WORLD'S DESIRE!

From The World's Desire by Haggard, Henry Rider

This endeavour,. when it is toward something which causes it, is called APPETITE, or DESIRE; .

From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various




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