- need
- In.
1) to create a need
2) to feel a need
3) to fill, meet, obviate a need
4) to satisfy a need
5) to minister to smb.'s needs
6) an acute, crying, desperate, dire, pressing, urgent need
7) a basic, fundamental; biological; emotional, psychological; personal; physical; physiological; spiritual; unfulfilled, unmet; universal need
8) bodily; emergency; material needs
9) a need for (there is no need for violence)
10) a need to + inf. (there was a pressing need to act immediately; there was no need for you to go)
11) in need (to live in dire need; badly in need)
USAGE NOTE: The sentence she needn't have gone implies that she did go (though there was no need for her to go). The sentence she didn't need to go does not indicate if she went or not.12) in need of (in crying need of food)
IIv.1) to need badly, desperately, sorely
2) (E) we all need to work
3) (F; in neg. and occ. in interrogative sentences) she need not work; or: she doesn't need to work; need she go? or: does she need to go?
4) (G) the house needs painting
* * *[niːd]biologicalcryingdesperatelydireemotionalmaterial needsobviate a needor: she doesn't need to workpersonalphysicalphysiologicalpressingpsychologicalsorelyspiritualunfulfilleduniversal needunmeturgent needneed she go? or: does she need to go?(E) we all need to work(F; in neg. and occ. in interrogative sentences) she need not work(G) the house needs paintinga basican acutebodilyto create a needto feel a needto fillto minister to smb. 's needsto satisfy a needto need badlyin need of (USAGE NOTE: The sentence she needn't have gone implies that she did go (though there was no need for her to go) . The sentence she didn't need to go does not indicate if she went or not.; in crying need of food)a need for (there is no need for violence)a need to + inf. (there was a pressing need to act immediately; there was no need for you to go)in need (to live in dire need; badly in need)
Combinatory dictionary. 2013.
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