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How to pronounce need
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What does need mean?
nounA requirement for something; something needed.
“Our instant needs are not being met.”
A desire or craving for the satisfaction of a requirement perceived as essential or primal.
Lack of means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.
“Famine is in thy cheeks; Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes.”
verbTo have an absolute requirement for.
“Living things need water to survive.”
To want strongly; to feel that one must have something.
“After ten days of hiking, I needed a shower and a shave.”
To be obliged or required (to do something).
“I need not go if I don't want to, need I?”
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