| query | A d_____ is a strong wish to do or have something.A desire is a strong wish to do or have something. I had a strong desire to help and care for people. They seem to have lost their desire for life. |
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| word | desire |
| full-definition | noun A desire is a strong wish to do or have something. I had a strong desire to help and care for people. They seem to have lost their desire for life. Desire for someone is a strong feeling of wanting to have sex with them. Teenage sex, for instance, may come not out of genuine desire but from a need to get love. verb If you desire something, you want it. She had remarried and desired a child with her new husband. But Fred was bored and desired to go home. He desired me to inform her that he had made his peace with God. You may find that just threatening this course of action will produce the desired effect. His warnings have provoked the desired response. If you desire someone, you want to have sex with them. It never occurred to him that she might not desire him. |
| inflections | desiresdesiringdesireddesired |
| cefr-level | B2 |
Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:b2
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