Usually means: Desires something owned by another.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. covets: Merriam-Webster
  2. covets: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. covets: Collins English Dictionary
  4. covets: Vocabulary.com
  5. covets: Wordnik
  6. covets: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. covets: Wiktionary
  8. covets: Dictionary.com
  9. covets: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. covets: Legal dictionary

(Note: See covet as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (covet)

verb:  (transitive) To wish for with eagerness; to desire possession of, often enviously.
verb:  (transitive) To long for inordinately or unlawfully; to hanker after (something forbidden).
verb:  (intransitive) To yearn; to have or indulge an inordinate desire, especially for another's possession.
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