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pożądać — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • covet verb To want something very badly, often something that belongs to someone else.
  • crave verb To have an intense desire for something, especially food, comfort, or attention.
  • desire verb To want something strongly.
  • hunger noun The physical need or desire to eat.

Senses

pożądać is used for these senses in English:

  • ache for To desire or want something, or someone, very much.
  • covet (transitive) To wish for with eagerness; to desire possession of, often enviously.
  • crave (ambitransitive) To desire strongly, so as to satisfy an appetite; to long or yearn for.
  • desire To want; to wish for earnestly.
  • desire To want emotionally or sexually.
  • hunger (figuratively, intransitive, usually, _, with 'for' or 'after') To have a desire (for); to long; to yearn.

crave — full definition

  1. verb To have an intense desire for something, especially food, comfort, or attention.
  2. verb Formal: to ask for something earnestly, especially from someone with authority.

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