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1. Oxford American Dictionary

   want

   • IPA[wänt]

   美式

   • v.
     have a desire to possess or do (something); wish for；wish to consult or speak to (someone)
   • n.
     a lack or deficiency of something；the state of being poor and in need of essentials; poverty

   • verb: want, 3rd person present: wants, gerund or present participle: wanting, past tense: wanted, past participle: wanted

   • noun: want, plural noun: wants

2. • 釋義
   • 片語

   v.

   動詞

   • 1. have a desire to possess or do (something); wish for I want an apple we want to go to the beach 同義詞 desire, wish for, hope for, fancy, have a fancy for, ... 更多take a fancy to, have an inclination for, care for, like, set one's heart on, long for, yearn for, pine for, sigh for, crave, hanker after, hunger for, thirst for, lust after, cry out for, be desperate for, itch for, covet, need, be bent on, informalhave a yen for, be dying for
   • ▪ wish to consult or speak to (someone) Tony wants me in the studio
   • ▪ (of the police) desire to question or apprehend (a suspected criminal) he is wanted by the police in connection with an arms theft
   • ▪ desire (someone) sexually I've wanted you since the first moment I saw you
   • ▪ North American informal desire to be in or out of a particular place or situation if anyone wants out, there's the door
   • 2. informal ought, should, or need to do something you don't want to believe everything you hear 同義詞 should, ought, need, must
   • ▪ British (of a thing) require to be attended to in a specified way the wheel wants greasing 同義詞 need, be/stand in need of, require, demand, cry out for
   • 3. literary lack or be short of something desirable or essential you shall want for nothing while you are with me
   • ▪ archaic (chiefly used in expressions of time) be short of or lack (a specified amount or thing) it wanted twenty minutes to midnight it wants a few minutes of five o'clock

   n.

   名詞

   • 1. a lack or deficiency of something Victorian houses which are in want of repair it won't be through want of trying 同義詞 lack, absence, nonexistence, unavailability, dearth, ... 更多deficiency, inadequacy, insufficiency, paucity, shortage, shortfall, shortness, scarcity, scarceness, scantiness, undersupply, deficit, rareexiguity反義詞 abundance, presence
   • ▪ the state of being poor and in need of essentials; poverty freedom from want 同義詞 need, neediness, austerity, privation, deprivation, ... 更多poverty, impoverishment, impecuniousness, impecuniosity, pennilessness, pauperism, penury, destitution, famine, drought, indigence反義詞 wealth, plenty
   • 2. a desire for something the expression of our wants and desires 同義詞 wish, desire, demand, longing, yearning, ... 更多fancy, craving, hankering, need, requirement, necessity, essential, requisite, informalyen

   片語

   • for want of