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a feeling of desiring something (especially impossible or unlikely)

desire

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Cases of word usage

1) the state of having no wish to act and no enthusiasm (apathy)

2) the wish to do good (by giving money) (benevolence)

3) a feeding for the sufferings or difficulties of others, causing a wish to help (compassion)

4) to act in agreement (with a request, command, wish etc) (comply)

5) (of a person, action) showing a serious wish to do something successfully (determined)

6) feeling, showing, a wish to be unkind because one does not trust a partner or believes one is being cheated (jealous)

7) money etc (to be) given to a person at the wish of another person who has died (legacy)

8) having much extent in space (length); to want, wish for, a person, thing very much (long)

9) to be sorry about having done, wish one had not done, (something bad) (repent)

10) the feeling caused by a need to drink; suffering caused by this; to have a very strong wish for something (thirst)

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