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needed

/ˈni.dɪd/ adjective A1
  1. Necessary; being required. · A much-needed rest.· Just-in-time as-needed support for in-house training
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Neither the shelves nor the porch needed it--but Marilla did.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 101 · C1
He says it is to help her with her lessons but Miranda Sloane is studying for Queen’s too, and I should think she needed help a lot more than Prissy because she’s ever so much stupider, but he never goes to help her in the evenings at all.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 134 · C1
She pushed up the sash--it went up stiffly and creakily, as if it hadn’t been opened for a long time, which was the case; and it stuck so tight that nothing was needed to hold it up.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 38 · C1
He scarcely needed an invitation to stay supper; and before he went away an engagement was formed, chiefly through his own and Mrs.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 325 · B2

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