LUST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lust mean? 

• LUST (noun)
  The noun LUST has 2 senses:

1. a strong sexual desire

2. self-indulgent sexual desire (personified as one of the deadly sins)

  Familiarity information: LUST used as a noun is rare.

• LUST (verb)
  The verb LUST has 1 sense:

1. have a craving, appetite, or great desire for

  Familiarity information: LUST used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LUST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A strong sexual desire

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

lecherousness; lust; lustfulness

Hypernyms ("lust" is a kind of...):

concupiscence; eros; physical attraction; sexual desire (a desire for sexual intimacy)

Derivation:

lust (have a craving, appetite, or great desire for)

lusty (vigorously passionate)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Self-indulgent sexual desire (personified as one of the deadly sins)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

lust; luxuria

Hypernyms ("lust" is a kind of...):

deadly sin; mortal sin (an unpardonable sin entailing a total loss of grace)

Derivation:

lust (have a craving, appetite, or great desire for)

lusty (vigorously passionate)

• LUST (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they lust    ... he / she / it lusts   
Past simple: lusted   
Past participle: lusted   
-ing form: lusting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Have a craving, appetite, or great desire for

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

crave; hunger; lust; starve; thirst

Hypernyms (to "lust" is one way to...):

desire; want (feel or have a desire for; want strongly)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

lust (self-indulgent sexual desire (personified as one of the deadly sins))

lust (a strong sexual desire)

 Context examples 

Also there was a lust in him, akin to madness, which had come with sight of the blood he had drawn.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Come out for the love and the lust of the thing.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The lust to kill was on him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

If the people had not been full of this lust for combat, it is certain that England must have been overborne.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You fling me back on lust for a passion—vice for an occupation?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Yet the blood lust was on me now.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Hyde in danger of his life was a creature new to me; shaken with inordinate anger, strung to the pitch of murder, lusting to inflict pain.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he bent her to his will.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To clear up which, I endeavoured to give some ideas of the desire of power and riches; of the terrible effects of lust, intemperance, malice, and envy.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

They fought on, through exhaustion and beyond, to exhaustion immeasurable and inconceivable, until the crowd of brutes, its blood-lust sated, terrified by what it saw, begged them impartially to cease.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)