Verb

(desir)

To want; to wish for earnestly.

* Bible, Exodus xxxiv. 24

Neither shall any man desire thy land.

* Tennyson

Ye desire your child to live.

To put a request to (someone); to entreat.

* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts XIII:

And when they founde no cause of deeth in hym, yet desired they Pilate to kyll him.

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To want emotionally or sexually.

To express a wish for; to entreat; to request.

* Bible, 2 Kings iv. 28

Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord?

* Shakespeare

Desire him to go in; trouble him no more.

To require; to demand; to claim.

* Spenser

A doleful case desires a doleful song.

To miss; to regret.

* Jeremy Taylor

She shall be pleasant while she lives, and desired when she dies.

Verb

(argu)

(obsolete) To prove.

To shows grounds for concluding ((that)); to indicate, imply.

* 1910 , , "The Soul of Laploshka", Reginald in Russia :

To have killed Laploshka was one thing; to have kept his beloved money would have argued a callousness of feeling of which I was not capable.

To debate, disagree or discuss opposing or differing viewpoints.

He also argued for stronger methods to be used against China.

He argued as follows: America should stop Lend-Lease convoying, because it needs to fortify its own Army with the supplies.

The two boys argued because of disagreement about the science project.

To have an argument, a quarrel.

To present (a viewpoint or an argument therefor).

He argued his point.

He argued that America should stop Lend-Lease convoying because it needed to fortify its own Army with the supplies.