need
/nid/ verb A2- To have an absolute requirement for. · Living things need water to survive.· You do not always need to go to the library to study. You may use the Internet.
- To want strongly; to feel that one must have something. · After ten days of hiking, I needed a shower and a shave.
- To be obliged or required (to do something). · I need not go if I don't want to, need I?· I was wondering if I need fill in more forms. - No, that's the only one you need fill out.
- To be required; to be necessary.
Plural need · He/she/it needs · Past needed · Past participle needed · -ing form needing
Verb forms
- Base form
- need
- He/she/it
- needs
- Past
- needed
- Past participle
- needed
- -ing form
- needing
From the library
The magistrate laid emphasis on these words, as if he wished to apply them to the owner himself, while his eyes seemed to plunge into the heart of one who, interceding for another, had himself need of indulgence.
“If ever you need us again,” she said, “come out into the field and call, and we shall hear you and come to your assistance.
But my people have worn green glasses on their eyes so long that most of them think it really is an Emerald City, and it certainly is a beautiful place, abounding in jewels and precious metals, and every good thing that is needed to make one happy.
“I have no heart, you know, so I am careful to help all those who may need a friend, even if it happens to be only a mouse.”
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