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needing to

needing to is the present participle and gerund of need to.

Meaning of need to

Verb

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

  1. Synonym of have to (“must”).
    Synonyms:
    have to

Questions about needing to

What is needing to the present participle and gerund of?
Needing to is the present participle and gerund of need to.

Words near needing to in the dictionary

  1. needing no introduction
  2. needing one's bumps feeling
  3. needing one's bumps felt
  4. needing one's eyes checked
  5. needing one's head examined
  6. needing to
  7. needings
  8. Needingworth
  9. needle
  10. needle aspiration biopsies
  11. needle aspiration biopsy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: needing to (page history and authors); need to (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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