1. verb /wɒnt,wʌnt,wɑnt,wɔːnt/
What do you want to eat?
b) To be lacking, not to exist.
There was something wanting in the play.
2. noun /wɒnt,wʌnt,wɑnt,wɔːnt/
[H]eavens and honour be witness, that no want of resolution in me, but only my followers base and ignominious treasons, makes me betake me to my heels.
b) Lack, absence.
For want of a nail the shoe was lost.
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