0 past simple and past participle of wish
1 used with the past simple to express that you feel sorry or sad about a state or situation that exists at the moment:
2 to want to do something:
I wish she'd shut up for a minute and let someone else talk.
[ + obj + adj ] Sometimes I was so depressed that I wished myself dead.
I don't wish to worry you but he did say he'd be back by midnight.
Passengers wishing to take the Kings Cross train should board now.
[ + to infinitive ] I wish to make a complaint.
As you wish, Sir. It will be done.
3 to hope or express hope for another person's success or happiness or pleasure on a particular occasion:
4 to hope that something you want will be made real because of good luck or magical powers:
"By the time I'm 40, I'll be rich." "You wish!" (= There is no chance of that happening.)
"Your job must be very glamorous." "I wish!" (= not at all.)
He's funny, bright, handsome - everything a girl could wish for really.
If I could wish myself anywhere in the world (= go anywhere as a result of making a wish) right now it would be somewhere hot and sunny.
[ + that ] I remember blowing out the candles on my birthday cake and wishing that John Lee would be my boyfriend.
5 to welcome someone with particular words or a particular action:
He wishes me every morning.
He did not translate them laboriously into words - unless he wished to communicate with verbal persons.
However, it wished to move out of the usual definition of preventive interventions as discrete procedures addressed to a particular disease.
Participants were asked to grade the additional characteristics and could re-grade the original characteristics if they wished.
This was unquestionably the way they were seen + and wished to be seen + by the popular classes.
Growers were also allowed to grow any crop they wished, with restrictions placed on the production of fruits and vegetables.
Although the bereaved wished to hold their memorial service in private, the authorities had different plans.
Officers who wished to leave the southern social order undisturbed were anathema because they placed the nation, not just the party, at risk.
This is the essence of the claim that post-processualists support 'pasts as wished for'.
