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A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want, dearth. +

(obsolete) A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy.

(stative) To be without, not to have, to need, to require.

To be short (''of'' or ''for'' something).

(obsolete) To be in want.

(obsolete) To see the deficiency in (someone or something); to find fault with, to malign, reproach.

(AAVE) To be off one's guard.

(lakh).