wanted
/ˈwɑn.tɪd/ adjective A1- Wished for; desired; sought. · Wanted: babysitter· She was the most wanted speaker at the conference.
- Subject to immediate detainment by law enforcement authorities on sight. · America’s most wanted· The police arrested a wanted criminal.
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A friend, meeting him and learning what he wanted, said, “If you would be cured, take a piece of bread, and dip it in the blood from your wound, and go and give it to the Dog that bit you.” The Man who had been bitten laughed at this advice and said, “Why?
“Even if I wanted to, how could I kill the Wicked Witch?
Dorothy did not say anything, for she was puzzled to know which of her two friends was right, and she decided if she could only get back to Kansas and Aunt Em, it did not matter so much whether the Woodman had no brains and the Scarecrow no heart, or each got what he wanted.
Dorothy went to get him, and saw such delicious fruit hanging from the branches that she gathered some of it, finding it just what she wanted to help out her breakfast.
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