meaning of lack
1. Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense.
2. Deficiency; want; need; destitution; failure; as, a lack of sufficient food.
3. To blame; to find fault with.
4. To be without or destitute of; to want; to need.
5. To be wanting; often, impersonally, with of, meaning, to be less than, short, not quite, etc.
6. To be in want.
7. Exclamation of regret or surprise.
8. 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"
Related Words
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