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Meaning desire meaning

What does desire mean?
Definitions in simple English

desire Noun

— A wish, a feeling of want. She has a desire to win. — A thing that someone wants. Love is my desire.

desire Verb

— To wish for something, to want something. I desire your company.

desire

— noun the feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state — verb (= want) feel or have a desire for; want strongly I want to go home now I want my own room — noun an inclination to want things a man of many desires — noun something that is desired — verb express a desire for — verb (= hope, trust) expect and wish I trust you will behave better from now on I hope she understands that she cannot expect a raise

Synonyms desire synonyms

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desire English » English

wish want longing lust wish for love will inclination hope long for crave covet like craving aspiration long request passion yearn ambition eagerness fancy intention yearning need appetite pleasure intend purpose liking dream ardour hunger ardor thought keenness itch envy expectation expect ask for appetency appetence anxious to plan opinion mind idea aspire thirst

Topics desire topics

What do people use desire to talk about?
Language and thought

Want
Language and thought Emotion Feel good

Like, love
Person Life Sexual relations

Attract sexually
Language and thought Think Expect

Hope
Language and thought Want Decide, plan

Purpose, goal
Language and thought Want Decide, plan

Lust

Conjugation desire conjugation

How do you conjugate desire?

desire · verb

Examples desire examples

How do I use desire in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Both young and old people desire slim figures.
I have no desire to learn French.
I have neither time or desire to go there.
We desire peace.
The mandatory character of schooling is rarely analyzed in the multitude of works dedicated to the study of the various ways to develop within children the desire to learn.
Avoid opening the window; I have no great desire to feel air currents on my back.
How to arouse a woman's desire?
The desire emerges between need and demand.
As we ate dessert, the desire grew to travel in this country.
We all desire success.
My desire to become a doctor grew out of looking after my sickly brother.
Young girls' desire for slim figures is strong.
Jane must stop giving way to her desire for chocolate.
My desire is to help you with this problem.
I was seized with the desire to buy the book.
I don't have much desire for wealth.
Burn with desire.
I have a desire to go to England.
I have no more desire to eat sweets.
Jane is very content with her job and has no desire to quit it.
I have not asked for help, nor do I desire it.
I could not subdue the desire to laugh.
Uncontrolled, these forces may be dangerous and destructive, but once mastered they can be bent to man's will and desire.
I have no sexual desire.
The desire to fly in the sky like a bird inspired the invention of the airplane.
Don't confuse desire with love.

Movie subtitles

The chances that two intelligent civilisations have the ability to communicate, the desire to communicate, and are around long enough to communicate makes this cosmic chat even tougher.
She grants the body's owner her greatest desire, and receives the owner's body in exchange.
That's why if you're in the dark for a long time, you forget what you were looking at in the beginning, and when everything became dark, it's not love nor obsession nor desire, it just became the evil monster itself.
Previously I fought for a successful career and for my honor. I was desperate to raise my reputation in the world. It was with such a selfish desire that I annihilated the Yoshioka School.
Mr. Dubois killed Horace, motivated simply by a desire to win.
Passing through France, my only desire has been to see her, but she has not kept our rendez-vous.
Desire knocks on her heart's door.
The desire for Ysabel leads Felix to pay her a visit already the next day.
Neither life nor death do I desire from you, Brunhilde.
And Diotima dances in the country of her desire.
And what does the victor desire?
Is there something you desire. down there. among the rabble?
Proceed, for you must follow This beautiful shadow which you desire.
And when you rave of your insane desire to create living men from the dust of the dead, a strange apparition has seemed to appear in the room.
These women have been raised to fulfill our every desire.
Secondly. Following the proclamation of full European-Arab equality, the Emperor shall grant French citizenship to Jews and Arabs who so desire.
He is obsessed by evil desire and today it befalls him. I won't hear anything.
But from her eyes, boundless, wild, sparks of roused desire were flashing.
When he was next to her and was looking at her, sweet weakness was penetrating all her body and burning desire was filling her.
The day after tomorrow. unless it is the desire of this charming young lady. to leave at once to meet her anxious bridegroom.
He is stronger than a team of oxen. and sleepless because of his desire to receive you in his arms.
Milord, much as I desire to live, I'm not afraid to die.
His attempted action must therefore be attributed to a diseased mind, afflicted with hallucinations of grandeur and obsessed with an insane desire to become a public benefactor.
Other instances of high elations are when he plays his tuba, when he writes his poetry, when he chases fire engines in a desire to help humanity.
Yes, sir, and while we're gone, see that the little ladies have everything they desire. - Goodbye.
Plaintiff and defendant then have the liberty to make other marriages, if they so desire.
Custody of the dog will depend on his own desire.
The method of borrowing a person's body. is only possible if the owner of the body allows it. She grants the body's owner her greatest desire, and receives the owner's body in exchange.
It was with such a selfish desire that I annihilated the Yoshioka School.
Longing and desire..
I have only one desire, that you disappear forever from my memory.
I have no desire to hurt you.
I shall feel my desire becoming flesh. and my hunger taking on the fire of blood.
My desire, my love song, Haiti to come back to you someday.
At times, I saw in their icy eyes. a desire to see me dead.
Is there anything else you desire, sir?

News and current affairs

A different kind of revolution was taking place in Europe's former colonies in Asia, where native peoples had no desire to be ruled once more by Western powers, which had been so ignominiously defeated by Japan.
Our intense desire to take all that we can from nature leaves precious little for other forms of life.
We don't do it, because we give safety a lower priority than our desire to spend less time driving.
That gift seems motivated more by a desire for fame than a desire to do good.
That talk is sending shudders across Europe, where many people connect it with America's oft-stated desire to remove Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq.
Not only do the remarks of French leaders about recreating a multi-polar world arouse alarm, but recent public opinion polls show a decline in the popularity of the US among Europeans and a desire for more independent policies.
That sour sense of rejection, felt by many confused youths, turns for some into a fierce desire for vengeance.
Israel's security and the desire to contain Iran are equally important.
Such a course would not please those whose underlying desire is regime change, not disarmament or punishment.
Recently, a desire for greater political respect has spurred Islamic nations to invest in technology, which is most visible in Pakistani and Iranian nuclear ambitions.
This balance involves not only economic factors, but also such considerations as security and the desire to control one's own economic development.
Given entrenched gender segregation and paternal dominance, this finding appears to reveal a strong desire for greater individual choice in what has traditionally been a family-driven decision.
First, America cannot run enormous (and growing!) current-account deficits forever: at some point the desire of foreign investors to hold ever-increasing shares of their wealth in America must wane and then reverse.
Closer to home, ASEAN's recent decision to give Burma a chance to chair the organization in 2014 underscores its neighbors' desire for the country's full participation in Asia's growing prosperity.
In fact, Juncker has already expressed a desire to integrate incoming High Representative Federica Mogherini into the Commission's policy program.
Initially, the attacks unleashed a strong desire to retaliate, which later gave way to caution about intervention, owing to unforeseen consequences.
The West had better hope that the Iranian narrative proves true, because the political space for any meaningful diplomatic agreement - both the desire for a deal and the room to achieve it - is created at home.
That meeting produced a notable broadside against the United States, as each member declared its desire to unseat the dollar as the global reserve currency.
China seeks a multi-polar world but a uni-polar Asia; and Japan and India desire a multi-polar Asia and a multi-polar world.
I left Pakistan feeling hopeful, because I saw the strong desire to join today's rising Asia.
It is too soon to tell if Iran's desire to obtain nuclear weapons has been delayed.
It is my earnest desire that the people in our neighborly countries and their leaders should feel free to visit each other whenever they wish to do so.
Or is it that we have become so inured to bad news surrounding the war on terror that we have no desire to know more?

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