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lack

 
Noun lack has 1 sense
  1. lack, deficiency, want - the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable; "there is a serious lack of insight into the problem"; "water is the critical deficiency in desert regions"; "for want of a nail the shoe was lost"
    --1 is a kind of need, demand
    --1 has particulars:
     absence; dearth, famine, shortage; mineral deficiency; stringency, tightness
    Derived form: verb lack1
Verb lack has 1 sense
  1. miss, lack - be without; "This soup lacks salt"; "There is something missing in my jewellery box!"
    Derived form: noun lack1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
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