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want verb (+ past participle) with ellipsis of a following infinitive, as in phrase want done. [DARE labels this usage “chiefly Midland, especially western Pennsylvania”]

1863 Watters-Curtis CW Letters (April 22) you must write what you want done to the grave or whether you are comeing after his corpse or not. 1939 Hall Coll (Cataloochee NC) We set it on the fire and put our meat in it or beans or anything we wanted boiled. 1959 Roberts Up Cutshin 101 If she wanted to scare us, or if we wanted scared, she would get into them ghost and witch tales. 1999 McNeil Purchase Knob Just tell me what you want done.