- π feeling hope
- π inspiring hope
- π Someone who is hoping for success or victory, especially as a candidate in a political election.
- π Attempting or desiring something.
- π Unfulfilled; frustrated in realizing a goal, ambition, etc.
- π One who aspires to something
- π (India) One's fiancΓ© or fiancΓ©e.
- π (obsolete) Wished-for; desired, wanted.
- π Expressing a wish or longing for something.
- π Aspiring, or seeking advancement.
- π Someone who aspires to high office, etc.
- π Seeking advancement.
- π Striving for recognition.
- π (of a person or their character) Having or showing ambition; wanting a lot of power, honor, respect, superiority, or other distinction.
- π (followed by "of" or the infinitive) Very desirous
- π Resulting from, characterized by, or indicating, ambition
- π Hard to achieve
- π (intransitive) To see imaginary events in one's mind while sleeping.
- π (intransitive) To hope, to wish
- π (intransitive) To daydream.
- π (transitive) To envision as an imaginary experience (usually when asleep).
- π (intransitive) To consider the possibility (of).
- π (intransitive, also figuratively) To have a strong desire for something or to do something; to long for or to do something.
- π (specifically) To long for something in the past with melancholy or nostalgia.
- π (intransitive) Of music, words, etc.: to express strong desire or longing.
- π (intransitive, dated) To have strong feelings of affection, love, sympathy, etc., toward someone.
- π (intransitive, obsolete) To be distressed or pained; to grieve; to mourn.
- π (transitive) Often followed by out: to perform (music) which conveys or say (words) which express strong desire or longing.
- π (transitive, archaic or poetic) To have a strong desire or longing (for something or to do something).
- π (transitive, obsolete) To cause (someone) to have strong feelings of affection, love, sympathy, etc.; also, to grieve or pain (someone).
- π Of milk: to curdle, especially in the cheesemaking process
- π Of cheese: to be made from curdled milk
- π To curdle (milk), especially in the cheesemaking process
- π To make (cheese) from curdled milk.
- π (transitive, finance) To take a long position in.
- π (intransitive) To await, aspire, desire greatly (something to occur or to be true).
- π (archaic) To be appropriate to, to pertain or belong to.
- π (obsolete) To belong.
- π To try to achieve a result; to make strenuous effort; to try earnestly and persistently.
- π To struggle in opposition; to be in contention or dispute; to contend; to contest.
- π To vie; to compete as a rival
- π seen in the mind as a mental image
- π wished for; desired; sought
- π (law) subject to immediate detainment by law enforcement authorities on sight.
- π regarded with admiration
- π (transitive) To desire; to want
- π (transitive, now rare) To hope (+ object clause with may or in present subjunctive).
- π (intransitive, followed by for) To hope (for a particular outcome), even if that outcome is unlikely to occur or cannot occur.
- π (ditransitive) To bestow (a thought or gesture) towards (someone or something).
- π (intransitive, followed by to and an infinitive) To request or desire to do an activity.
- π (transitive) To recommend; to seek confidence or favour on behalf of.
- π regarded with deep or rapturous love (especially as if for a god)
- π (intransitive, transitive) To want something to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might.
- π To be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes
- π (intransitive) To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; usually followed by in.
- π (transitive, dialectal, nonstandard) To wish.
- π wanted intensely
- π Praised, honored.
- π Noble, sublime; heavenly.
- π Elated; blissful.
- π (intransitive) To move upward, to fly, to soar.
- π (intransitive) To slope in an upward direction
- π (transitive) To go up.
- π (transitive) To succeed.
- π (intransitive, figuratively) To rise; to become higher, more noble, etc.
- π To trace, search or go backwards temporally (e.g., through records, genealogies, routes, etc.).
- π (transitive, music) To become higher in pitch.
- π (incel slang) To lose one's virginity, especially of a man through unpaid and consensual sexual intercourse with a woman.
- π a 1947 American Western film noir.
- π a 1934 American drama film directed by Louis King and starring Rosemary Ames, Victor Jory and Russell Hardie.
- π Pursued is an American action drama movie that was released on 30 Aug 1925.
- π To enroll or enlist new members or potential employees on behalf of an employer, organization, sports team, the military, etc.
- π To supply with new men, as an army; to fill up or make up by enlistment; also, to muster
- π (archaic) To replenish, renew, or reinvigorate by fresh supplies; to remedy a lack or deficiency in.
- π (biology, intransitive) To become an adult or breeding-age member of a population.
- π (biochemistry) To prompt a protein, leucocyte. etc. to intervene in a given region of the body.
- π (dated, intransitive) To recuperate; to gain health, flesh, spirits, or the like.
- π found pleasant or attractive; often used as a combining form
- π regarded with deep or rapturous love (especially as if for a god)
- π covered patchily; often used in combination
- π (intransitive) To languish; to lose flesh or wear away through distress.
- π (intransitive) To long, to yearn so much that it causes suffering.
- π (transitive) To grieve or mourn for.
- π (transitive) To inflict pain upon; to torment.
- π bound by contract
- π Designed or executed in a particular manner or to a particular degree.
- π Processed in a particular way; prepared via labour.
- π Decorated or embellished; embroidered.
- π Prepared so as to demonstrate the steps required
- π (intransitive) To be thirsty.
- π (intransitive, usually followed by "for") To desire vehemently.
- π (all used chiefly with qualifiers `well' or `poorly' or `un-') having received specific instruction
- π (obsolete) In steps.
- π Having a university degree; having completed training.
- π Marked with graduations.
- π Arranged by grade, level, degree.
- π (taxation) Increasing in rate with the taxable base
- π (ornithology) Of a tail, having successively longer feathers towards the middle.
- π Completed; effected; established.
- π Having many accomplishments, often as a result of study or training.
- π Showing skill and artistry.
- π (intransitive) To have enough courage (to do something).
- π (transitive) To defy or challenge (someone to do something)
- π (transitive) To have enough courage to meet or do something, go somewhere, etc.; to face up to
- π (transitive) To terrify; to daunt
- π (transitive) To catch (larks) by producing terror through the use of mirrors, scarlet cloth, a hawk, etc., so that they lie still till a net is thrown over them.
- π (obsolete) To stare stupidly or vacantly; to gaze as though amazed or terrified.
- π (obsolete) To lie or crouch down in fear.
- π (transitive, intransitive) To wave or nod to somebody with the intention to make the person come closer.
- π (transitive, intransitive) To seem attractive and inviting
- π (transitive) To surpass someone or something; to be better or do better than someone or something.
- π (intransitive) To be much better than others.
- π (transitive, archaic, rare) To exceed, to go beyond
- π Subject to attainder; condemned to death or outlawry, hence stripped of one's titles, hereditary rights, or possessions.
- π (now rare) Tainted, corrupted.