Desire: alternatives and connections

The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing.

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The act of aspirating; the pronunciation of a letter with a full or strong emission of breath; an aspirated sound.

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An abrupt change in feeling, opinion, or action, proceeding from some whim or fancy; a freak; a notion.

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Sexual lust; morbid carnal passion.

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of Crave

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The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the mind during sleep; a sleeping vision.

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Love; the god of love; -- by earlier writers represented as one of the first and creative gods, by later writers as the son of Aphrodite, equivalent…

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An eager desire or longing; greediness; as, a greed of gain.

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An uneasy sensation occasioned normally by the want of food; a craving or desire for food.

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The act of impelling, or driving onward with sudden force; impulsion; especially, force so communicated as to produced motion suddenly, or immediatel…

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To have an uneasy sensation in the skin, which inclines the person to scratch the part affected.

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of Long

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The doctrine of materialists; materialistic views and tenets.

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A suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress (as, a cardiac passion); specifically, the suffering of Christ betwee…

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The condition, character, aims, and habits of the class called Philistines. See Philistine, 3.

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Violent excitement; eager passion; extreme vehemence of desire, emotion, or suffering, mastering the will.

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The act of tempting, or enticing to evil; seduction.

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A sensation of dryness in the throat associated with a craving for liquids, produced by deprivation of drink, or by some other cause (as fear, excite…

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The state of being thirsty; thirst.

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To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.

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The state of not having; the condition of being without anything; absence or scarcity of what is needed or desired; deficiency; lack; as, a want of p…

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The European widgeon.

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To have a desire or yearning; to long; to hanker.

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of Wish

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of Yearn

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The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing.

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To grudge; to envy the possession of.

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A burdensome sense of responsibility; trouble caused by onerous duties; anxiety; concern; solicitude.

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To ask with earnestness or importunity; to ask with submission or humility; to beg; to entreat; to beseech; to implore.

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Malice; ill will; spite.

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The faculty by which the mind forms an image or a representation of anything perceived before; the power of combining and modifying such objects into…

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To long (for) with a keen appetite and uneasiness; to have a vehement desire; -- usually with for or after; as, to hanker after fruit; to hanker afte…

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A sloping plain between mountain ridges.

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An uneasy sensation occasioned normally by the want of food; a craving or desire for food.

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To have an uneasy sensation in the skin, which inclines the person to scratch the part affected.

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Having the same, or nearly the same, appearance, qualities, or characteristics; resembling; similar to; similar; alike; -- often with in and the part…

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Drawn out in a line, or in the direction of length; protracted; extended; as, a long line; -- opposed to short, and distinguished from broad or wide.

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Pleasure.

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A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who has not been married. See Mistress, 5.

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Sick.

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To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession.

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To die; to perish.

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A sensation of dryness in the throat associated with a craving for liquids, produced by deprivation of drink, or by some other cause (as fear, excite…

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To have a desire or yearning; to long; to hanker.

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To pain; to grieve; to vex.

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The act of arousing, or the state of being aroused.

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To watch for; to look out for.

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To speak or arrange for beforehand; to order or engage against a future time; as, to bespeak goods, a right, or a favor.

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To wait for; to await.

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Trial, as a test or experiment.

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To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; t…

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To direct the eyes for the purpose of seeing something; to direct the eyes toward an object; to observe with the eyes while keeping them directed; --…

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The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit; as, to rove in quest of game, of a lost child, of property…

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The act of asking for anything desired; expression of desire or demand; solicitation; prayer; petition; entreaty.

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Direction or course toward any place, object, effect, or result; drift; causal or efficient influence to bring about an effect or result.

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To watch; to observe; to take notice.

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Feeling desire; eagerly wishing; solicitous; eager to obtain; covetous.

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Feeling desire; eagerly wishing; solicitous; eager to obtain; covetous.

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A sloping plain between mountain ridges.

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A sloping plain between mountain ridges.

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A sloping plain between mountain ridges.

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Assured resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship, or other sound principle, of another person; confidence; reliance; relia…

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The state of not having; the condition of being without anything; absence or scarcity of what is needed or desired; deficiency; lack; as, a want of p…

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