LUST


Meaning of LUST in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

blood lust

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

blood

I had not realised that one innocent man's plight could arouse such blood lust .

It filled his enemies with terror and his own troops with unshakeable faith and unquenchable blood lust .

But she fell back, reading in both Harold's eyes and Felicity's an unstoppable blood lust .

Things had now degenerated into a blood lust .

Is this satisfying everyone's innate, latent, hopefully minimal blood lust ?

■ VERB

satisfy

Such acts, he said, only served envy and the ambition of enraged parties or satisfied the cravings of lust .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

He was a man possessed by greed, jealousy and lust .

Her lust for money is insatiable.

There was a mixture of lust and guilt in his eyes.

These were not feelings of love but of lust , pure and simple.

Throughout his career he was motivated by a lust for power.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

He felt as if he had been led through the seven deadly sins one by one, with lust leading the way.

If it was lust , there were other ladies ready and willing.

Must Aegisth tote a live snake for us to realize that lust was the motivation for the murder of Agamemnon?

She looked more desirable than ever; now, closing his aching eyes behind their glasses, he felt lust rise.

Visual lust and inconsistency make fine bedfellows, I can tell you.

We are born with the potential to develop lust , hunger, and anger.

II. verb

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But secrets lust to make more of their kind.

Have you secretly been lusting after their time slot?

I lust after this man, she thought.

Publishers worldwide must be lusting for it.

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