desire

Definition

  • verb: to want or wish for (something)
  • verb: to long or hope for
  • usually singular
  • synonyms: beg, hanker after, wish

Examples

  • He worried that he might never achieve his 'desire'. [=might never do the thing that he wanted to do]

  • It is our 'desire' that all of you be treated fairly. [=we want all of you to be treated fairly]

  • Although her education 'left much to be desired', she was an extremely intelligent person.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) -I'm giving it to you! -Don't tempt me,Frodo! I dare not take it. Not even to keep it safe. Understand,Frodo... ...I would use this Ring from a desire to do good. But through me,it would wield a power too great and terrible to imagine. -But it cannot stay in the Shire! -No. No,it can't. (..)
    2001 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
  • (..) Seven to the Dwarf-lords.' Great miners and craftsmen of the mountain halls. And nine... ...nine rings were gifted to the race of Men... ... who,above all else,desire power. Middle Earth For within these rings was bound the strength and will to govern each race. But they were all of them deceived. (..)
    2001 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring