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desiderate

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10 lettersPronunciation /dɪˈsɪdəɹeɪt/Sorted addeeeirstStarts with DEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. To miss; to feel the absence of; to long for.

Word origin

From Latin, from the participle stem of the verb dēsīderāre (“to desire”). The verb is a doublet of desire.

Used in a sentence

  • Between our human nature and the nature they desiderate there is a deep and fordless river, over which they can throw no bridge, and all their talk supposes that we shall be able to fly or wade across it […]
  • it put him in thought of that missing link of creation’s chain desiderated by the late ingenious Mr Darwin.
  • O Friend of God, know then that London is the desiderate town even of all Earth's cities.

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