need

1. n. A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want. Source: opted

2. n. Want of the means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution. Source: opted

3. n. That which is needful; anything necessary to be done; (pl.) necessary things; business. Source: opted

4. n. Situation of need; peril; danger. Source: opted

5. n. To be in want of; to have cause or occasion for; to lack; to require, as supply or relief. Source: opted

6. v. i. To be wanted; to be necessary. Source: opted

7. adv. Of necessity. See Needs. Source: opted

8. n. a condition requiring relief Source: wordnet

9. n. anything that is necessary but lacking Source: wordnet

10. n. the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior Source: wordnet

11. n. a state of extreme poverty or destitution Source: wordnet

12. v. require as useful, just, or proper Source: wordnet

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