wish
Usage
What are other ways to say wish?
To wish is to feel an impulse toward attainment or possession of something; the strength of the feeling may be of greater or lesser intensity: I wish I could go home. Desire, a more formal verb, suggests a strong wish: They desire liberation. Want, usually colloquial in use, suggests a feeling of lack or need that imperatively demands fulfillment: People all over the world want peace.
Example Sentences
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“Our kids wish to keep us safe at all costs, and we want to maintain our autonomy at all costs,” says Viorst.
"What else can we wish for? At a time like this, nothing else comes to mind," said Kostiantyn Biden, a local ceiling fitter whose apartment building was left without power and water during the blackout.
From Barron's
With hours to go until the end of another year of war, many in Kyiv only had one wish for 2026.
From BBC
Do you want a religious service, for example, and do you wish to be cremated, buried or some other form of disposition?
From MarketWatch
Last week the Scottish government's independent advisers notified First Minister John Swinney that they wish to launch an investigation into Constance.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
