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US
/dɪˈzaɪɝ/
]
[ UK /dɪzˈaɪə/ ]
[ UK /dɪzˈaɪə/ ]
NOUN
- the feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state
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an inclination to want things
a man of many desires - something that is desired
VERB
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expect and wish
I hope she understands that she cannot expect a raise
I trust you will behave better from now on - express a desire for
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feel or have a desire for; want strongly
I want to go home now
I want my own room
How To Use desire In A Sentence
- This does not exclude the existence of pockets of the urban population with unrealized homosexual desires.
- You just can't let a little thing like his being already dead get in the way of a good, irrational hatful desire to kill! Tom Cruise is a LOT OLDER than I thought
- Her desired outcome was a bit of money to help with major structural repairs.
- This absorbing profile muses on his universal popularity and compulsive desire to draw and paint. Times, Sunday Times
- But the motive behind her achievement was not self-interest alone, nor the desire to carry aloft the banner of feminism.
- Human rebellion didn't change his desire. Christianity Today
- I could not but acknowledge that the local governments had, as it seemed to him, evinced but little sympathy with Hindooism; and that whatever might be European policy in respect to religion, the East India Company might have participated in the desire which prevails in Europe to develop ancient customs, and the reasons of those customs. Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.
- They consistently underachieve at school and demonstrate little desire to make headway along a career avenue to success.
- I have what I call perverse desire, which I think is key to being an artist of any kind. FEATURED POET: REBECCA LOUDON
- To complete the desired effect of Edmund's cuteness, the photographer has put a posy of flowers into his hand, then perched him on a tall rattan chair from which his short legs dangle.