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greed

SayGREEDUS/ɡɹid//ɡɹiːd/

Verbgreeds, greeding, greeded

2 meanings of greed

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  1. 1
    selfish desirenoununcountable
    A strong, selfish wish for more than you need or deserve, especially money, food, or things.

    Greed made him lie to his own family.

    The king's greed left the people poor and hungry.

    Similaravarice, greediness, covetousness, rapacity

    Oppositegenerosity, selflessness

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  2. 2
    want selfishlyverbtransitive or intransitive
    To want something in a greedy way, or to do greedy things to get it.
    The ravens sit greeding, / And watching, and heeding: / Thoro' wind, over water, / Comes scent of the slaughter, / And ravens sit greeding / Their share of the bones.
    1848, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], HaroldHere, greeding means wanting something greedily, here the bones.

    Similarhunger, lust

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Origin

Made around 1600 from the word greedy.