Usually means: Was missing or deficient in.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. lacked: Merriam-Webster
  2. lacked: Collins English Dictionary
  3. lacked: Vocabulary.com
  4. Lacked, lacked: Wordnik
  5. lacked: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. lacked: Wiktionary
  7. Lacked, lacked: Dictionary.com
  8. lacked: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Lacked: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Lacked: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. lacked: FreeDictionary.org
  12. lacked: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. lacked: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lacked: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (lack)

noun:  A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want.
noun:  (obsolete) A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy.
verb:  (transitive, stative) To be without, not to have, to need, to require.
verb:  (intransitive) To be short (of or for something).
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To be in want.
verb:  (obsolete) To see the deficiency in (someone or something); to find fault with, to malign, reproach.
noun:  Archaic form of lakh. [One hundred thousand rupees.]
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