lack
/læk/ verb B2- To be without, not to have, to need, to require. · My life lacks excitement.
- To be short (of or for something). · He'll never lack for company while he's got all that money.
- To be off one's guard. · His opps caught him lacking.
He/she/it lacks · Past lacked · Past participle lacked · -ing form lacking
Verb forms
- Base form
- lack
- He/she/it
- lacks
- Past
- lacked
- Past participle
- lacked
- -ing form
- lacking
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It seemed very lonely, lacking those fresh young lives.
In fact, he had looked at twenty very much as he looked at sixty, lacking a little of the grayness.
He was a big, fat, stolid youth of twenty, with a round, expressionless face, and a painful lack of conversational gifts.
To the immense relief of all the girls, and especially of Josie Pye, who, in spite of lack of imagination, had been seized with horrible visions of a future branded as the girl who was the cause of Anne Shirley’s early and tragic death, Anne sat dizzily up and answered uncertainly:
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