I Want the News Obituaries: The Hidden Dangers Hiding in Plain Sight - Away State Journal
If you want something, you feel a desire or a need for it. I want a drink. People wanted to know who this talented designer was. They began to want their father to be the same as other daddies.
WANT definition: 1. to wish for a particular thing or plan of action. "Want" is not used in polite requests: 2. to…. Learn more.
Definition of want verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
1. The condition or quality of lacking something usual or necessary: stayed home for want of anything better to do. 2. Pressing need; destitution: lives in want. 3. Something desired: a person of few wants and needs. 4. A defect of character; a fault.
want (third-person singular simple present wants, present participle wanting, simple past and past participle wanted) (transitive) To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave, hanker, or demand. [from 18th c.] quotations
to be without or be deficient in: to want judgment; to want knowledge. to fall short by (a specified amount): The sum collected wants but a few dollars of the desired amount.
To desire to see, speak to, or do business with; desire the presence or assistance of; de sire or require to do something: as, you are the very man we want; call me if I am wanted; the general wanted him to capture the battery.
In informal situations, we can use want plus the to-infinitive to advise, recommend or warn. It is almost always in the present simple, but we can also use it with ’ll (the short form of will): …
