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All feel the pinch synonyms

feel the pinch
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verb feel the pinch

  • desire — A desire is a strong wish to do or have something.
  • require — to have need of; need: He requires medical care.
  • lack — something missing or needed: After he left, they really felt the lack.
  • call for — If you call for someone, you go to the building where they are, so that you can both go somewhere.
  • demand — If one thing demands another, the first needs the second in order to happen or be dealt with successfully.
  • claim — If you say that someone claims that something is true, you mean they say that it is true but you are not sure whether or not they are telling the truth.
  • miss — to fail to hit or strike: to miss a target.
  • hunger — a compelling need or desire for food.
  • wish — to want; desire; long for (usually followed by an infinitive or a clause): I wish to travel. I wish that it were morning.
  • covet — If you covet something, you strongly want to have it for yourself.
  • necessitate — to make necessary or unavoidable: The breakdown of the car necessitated a change in our plans.
  • thirst — a sensation of dryness in the mouth and throat caused by need of liquid.
  • hanker — to have a restless or incessant longing (often followed by after, for, or an infinitive).
  • lust — intense sexual desire or appetite.
  • crave — If you crave something, you want to have it very much.
  • long — having considerable linear extent in space: a long distance; a long handle.
  • pine — Archaic. painful longing.
  • yearn — to have an earnest or strong desire; long: to yearn for a quiet vacation.
  • do without — Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
  • die for — to cease to live; undergo the complete and permanent cessation of all vital functions; become dead.
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