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To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave, hanker, or demand.

(by extension) To make it easy or tempting to do something undesirable, or to make it hard or challenging to refrain from doing it.

(in particular) To wish, desire{{,}} or demand to see, have the presence of or do business with.

To desire (to experience desire); to wish.

(often future tense) To be advised to do something {{q|compare (should), (ought)}}.

(colloquial) To lack and be in need of or require (something, such as a noun or verbal noun).

(rare) To have occasion for (something requisite or useful); to require or need.

(dated) To be lacking or deficient or absent.

(dated) To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.

(archaic) To lack and be without, to not have (something).

(by extension) To lack and perhaps be able or willing to do without.

To desire a romantic or (especially) sexual relationship with someone; to lust for.

A desire, wish, longing.

{{lb|en|countable|often|followed by (of)}} Lack, absence, deficiency.

(poverty)Poverty.

Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt.

(mining) A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.

(dialectal) A mole ((species)).