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de·sire

(dĭ-zīr′)

tr.v. de·sired, de·sir·ing, de·sires

1. To wish or long for; want: a reporter who desires an interview; a teen who desires to travel.

2. To want to have sex with (another person).

3. To express a wish for; request.

a. The feeling of wanting to have something or wishing that something will happen.

b. An instance of this feeling: She had a lifelong desire to visit China.

2. Sexual appetite; passion.

3. An object of such feeling or passion: A quiet evening with you is my only desire.

4. Archaic A request or petition.

[Middle English desiren, from Old French desirer, from Latin dēsīderāre, to observe or feel the absence of, miss, desire : dē-, de- + -sīderāre (as in cōnsīderāre, to observe attentively, contemplate; see consider).]

de·sir′er n.

Synonyms: desire, covet, crave, want, wish
These verbs mean to have a strong longing for: desire peace; coveted the new car; craving fame and fortune; wanted a drink of water; wished that she had gone to the beach.

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desired

(dɪˈzaɪəd)

adj

wished for

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Adj.	1.	desired - greatly desired coveted, in demand, sought after desirable - worth having or seeking or achieving; "a desirable job"; "computer with many desirable features"; "a desirable outcome"
	2.	desired - wanted intensely; "the child could no longer resist taking one of the craved cookies"; "it produced the desired effect" craved wanted - desired or wished for or sought; "couldn't keep her eyes off the wanted toy"; "a wanted criminal"; "a wanted poster"

desired

adjective

1. intended, wanted, wished for, needed, longed for, coveted, sought-after His warnings have provoked the desired response.

2. required, necessary, correct, appropriate, right, expected, fitting, particular, express, accurate, proper, exact Cut the material to the desired size.

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επιθυμητός

desiderato

desired

[dɪˈzaɪə^rd] adj [result, effect] → désiré(e)

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It has always been a common topic of popular discussion whether animals "think." On this topic people are prepared to take sides without having the vaguest idea what they mean by "thinking." Those who desired to investigate such questions were led to observe the behaviour of animals, in the hope that their behaviour would throw some light on their mental faculties.

In a purely material world, it may be said, there would be no opposition of pleasant and unpleasant, good and bad, what is desired and what is feared.

The thing which will bring a restless condition to an end is said to be what is desired. But only experience can show what will have this sedative effect, and it is easy to make mistakes.

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And here comes the point: is not thirst the desire which the soul has of drink, and of drink only; not of drink qualified by anything else; for example, warm or cold, or much or little, or, in a word, drink of any particular sort: but if the thirst be accompanied by heat, then the desire is of cold drink; or, if accompanied by cold, then of warm drink; or, if the thirst be excessive, then the drink which is desired will be excessive; or, if not great, the quantity of drink will also be small: but thirst pure and simple will desire drink pure and simple, which is the natural satisfaction of thirst, as food is of hunger?

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It is fanned, as by a wind, by sight of the thing desired, or by a new and luring description or comprehension of the thing desired.

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Vronsky, meanwhile, in spite of the complete realization of what he had so long desired, was not perfectly happy.

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When we arrived at the island, which was about eleven in the morning, one of the gentlemen who accompanied me went to the governor, and desired admittance for a stranger, who came on purpose to have the honour of attending on his highness.

And because my first inclination was to be entertained with scenes of pomp and magnificence, I desired to see Alexander the Great at the head of his army, just after the battle of Arbela: which, upon a motion of the governor's finger, immediately appeared in a large field, under the window where we stood.

I desired that the senate of Rome might appear before me, in one large chamber, and an assembly of somewhat a later age in counterview, in another.

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"Then how comes it," said Monte Cristo with a frown, "that, when I desired you to purchase for me the finest pair of horses to be found in Paris, there is another pair, fully as fine as mine, not in my stables?" At the look of displeasure, added to the angry tone in which the count spoke, Ali turned pale and held down his head.

"They are at the door harnessed to the carriage as your excellency desired. Does your excellency wish me to accompany him?"

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Each of them desired nothing more than to give himself up as a prisoner to escape from all this horror and misery; but on the one hand the force of this common attraction to Smolensk, their goal, drew each of them in the same direction; on the other hand an army corps could not surrender to a company, and though the French availed themselves of every convenient opportunity to detach themselves and to surrender on the slightest decent pretext, such pretexts did not always occur.