desire
/dɪˈzaɪɹ/ verb B2- To want; to wish for earnestly. · I desire to speak with you.
- To put a request to (someone); to entreat.
- To want emotionally or sexually. · She has desired him since they first met.
- To express a wish for; to entreat; to request.
- To require; to demand; to claim.
- To miss; to regret.
Plural desire · He/she/it desires · Past desired · Past participle desired · -ing form desiring
Verb forms
- Base form
- desire
- He/she/it
- desires
- Past
- desired
- Past participle
- desired
- -ing form
- desiring
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Beside him glided Caderousse, whose desire to partake of the good things provided for the wedding party had induced him to become reconciled to the Dantès, father and son, although there still lingered in his mind a faint and unperfect recollection of the events of the preceding night; just as the brain retains on waking in the morning the dim and misty outline of a dream.
So desiring two ends, he obtained neither.
Now go, and do not seek me again until you have earned the brains you so greatly desire.”
“Now, would anybody think that this room contained a happy, merry party, who desire nothing better than to laugh and dance the hours away?”
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