Desired Desire Dessert Topped Cream Medicine Achieve Effect

• we all desire health and happiness.
• the house had everything you could desire.
• the dessert can be topped with cream, if desired(= if you like).
• the medicine did not achieve the desired effect.

desire

1. to want something; to wish for something
• We all desire health and happiness.
• The house had everything you could desire.
• The dessert can be topped with cream, if desired(= if you like).
• The medicine did not achieve the desired effect.
• Fewer people desire to live in the north of the country.
2. to be sexually attracted to somebody
• He still desired her.
3. to be bad or unacceptable
• The service in the restaurant left a lot to be desired.

Extra Examples

• A home of her own was something she had always very much desired.
• Most countries sincerely desired peace.
• He still desired her, and she him.
• The dessert can be topped with cream, if desired.
• The medicine did not achieve the desired effect.

Verb Forms

• present simple I / you / we / they desire
• he / she / it desires
• past simple desired
• past participle desired
• -ing form desiring

Word Origin

• Middle English: from Old French desir (noun), desirer (verb), from Latin desiderare, perhaps from de- ‘down’ + sidus, sider- ‘star’.