needing

Verb

need (third-person singular simple present needs, present participle needing, simple past and past participle needed)

1. (transitive) To have an absolute requirement for.
   • Living things need water to survive.
2. (transitive) To want strongly; to feel that one must have something.
   • After ten days of hiking, I needed a shower and a shave.

   Synonyms:

   desire, wish for, would like, want, will, be without, lack

3. (modal) To be obliged or required (to do something).
   • I need not go if I don't want to, need I?
4. (intransitive) To be required; to be necessary.
   • When we have done it, we have done our duty, and all that is in our power, and indeed all that needs.1694, [John Locke], chapter 21, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Thomas Dring, […]; and Samuel Manship, […], →OCLC, book II, page 143
5. (obsolete, transitive) To be necessary (to someone).
   • More ample spirit, then hitherto was wount, / Here needes me […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

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