Crossword-Solution: DESIRE 6 letters, 179 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Word Word Type Definition
Desire v. t. To long for; to wish for earnestly; to covet.
Desire v. t. To express a wish for; to entreat; to request.
Desire v. t. To require; to demand; to claim.
Desire v. t. To miss; to regret.
Desire v. t. The natural longing that is excited by the enjoyment or
the thought of any good, and impels to action or effort its continuance
or possession; an eager wish to obtain or enjoy.
Desire v. t. An expressed wish; a request; petition.
Desire v. t. Anything which is desired; an object of longing.
Desire v. t. Excessive or morbid longing; lust; appetite.
Desire v. t. Grief; regret.

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DESIRE anagram DERIES, EIDERS, RESIDE

We have 179 clues for the answer “DESIRE”

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"A Streetcar Named ___" 1 answer
"A Streetcar Named ___" (Tennessee Williams play) 1 answer
"Streetcar" sign 1 answer
"That's My ___" (doo-wop classic) 1 answer
"The __ of the moth for the star": Shelley 1 answer
"You made my soul a burning fire / You're getting to be my one ___" (Stevie Wonder) 1 answer
1988 U2 hit 1 answer
A strong one may be burning 1 answer
Bob Dylan album with the song "Hurricane" 1 answer
Conductor Defauw. 1 answer
Dramatic streetcar 1 answer
Eagerness for. 1 answer
Emotional exigency 1 answer
Famous streetcar 1 answer
Fancy, as a verb 1 answer
First word of O'Neill title. 1 answer
Found under the elms? 1 answer
Getting a raise, maybe 1 answer
I want my own room 1 answer
It's often burning 1 answer
It's sometimes burning 1 answer
Lily Bart's is riches: "The House of Mirth." 1 answer
Michael Pollan's "The Botany of ___" 1 answer
Name of Tennessee's streetcar 1 answer
New Orleans streetcar 1 answer
O'Neill title starter 1 answer
Object of longing. 1 answer
Object wished for. 1 answer
Longing or craving 1 answer
Retired New Orleans trolley 1 answer
State of want 1 answer
Streetcar name 1 answer
Streetcar's name 1 answer
T.W.'s streetcar 1 answer
Tennessee Williams "streetcar" 1 answer
Theatrical Streetcar. 1 answer
Top 10 U2 song from "Rattle and Hum" 1 answer
U2 "Rattle and Hum" hit 1 answer
U2 hit of 1988 1 answer
Vehicle displayed in New Orleans 1 answer
Well-known streetcar 1 answer
Williams's streetcar 1 answer
Wish to have 1 answer
Word common to O'Neill and Williams titles. 1 answer
a strong feeling of wanting to have something 1 answer
Deep yearning 2 answers
Start of an O'Neill title 2 answers
Set one's heart on 2 answers
"Hots" 2 answers
"___ Under the Elms" 2 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AAER
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with DESIRE (5)

Each house shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such Parts as may in their Judgment require Secrecy; and the Yeas and Nays of the Members of either House on any question shall, at the Desire of one fifth of those Present, be entered on the Journal.
The United States' Constitution Founding Fathers 1975
Hook heaved a heavy sigh, and I know not why it was, perhaps it was because of the soft beauty of the evening, but there came over him a desire to confide to his faithful bo’sun the story of his life.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
Sight hateful, sight tormenting! thus these two Imparadis’t in one anothers arms The happier _Eden_, shall enjoy thir fill Of bliss on bliss, while I to Hell am thrust, Where neither joy nor love, but fierce desire, Among our other torments not the least, Still unfulfill’d with pain of longing pines; Yet let me not forget what I have gain’d From thir own mouths; all is not theirs it seems: One fatal Tree there stands of Knowledge call’d, Forbidden them to taste: Knowledge forbidd’n? Suspicious, reasonless.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
The Mole and His Mother A MOLE, a creature blind from birth, once said to his Mother: “I am sure than I can see, Mother!” In the desire to prove to him his mistake, his Mother placed before him a few grains of frankincense, and asked, “What is it?” The young Mole said, “It is a pebble.” His Mother exclaimed: “My son, I am afraid that you are not only blind, but that you have lost your sense of smell.” The Herdsman and the Lost Bull A HERDSMAN tending his flock in a forest lost a Bull-calf from the fold.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
They regarded it as evidence of great confidence reposed in them by their overseers; and it was on this account, as well as a constant desire to be out of the field from under the driver’s lash, that they esteemed it a high privilege, one worth careful living for.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1992

Quotes with DESIRE (3)

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost
... the proper self-knowledge and self-love of every created thing is ipso facto a participation in the knowledge and love of God. The entire universe moves by desire for the Highest Good simply because every part of it loves what God loves - namely, its own being.
Robert Farrar Capon Between Noon & Three: Romance, Law & the Outrage of Grace
That very breath wherewith they utter their complaints is a blessing and a fundamental one too for if God would withdraw that they were incapable of whatsoever else either have or desire.
Richard Allestree The Art of Contentment
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 137 times in crossword archives (1947–2025).