Needing

verb

Word Frequency: 3.5

Definitions

1.verbTo have an absolute requirement for.

"Living things need water to survive."

2.verbTo want strongly; to feel that one must have something.

"After ten days of hiking, I needed a shower and a shave."

3.verb(modal verb) To be obliged or required (to do something).

"You need not go if you don't want to."

4.verbTo be required; to be necessary.

5.verbTo be necessary (to someone).

6.nounA need.

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