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require

Verbs

• (v) require as useful, just, or proper
  • It takes nerve to do what she did
  • success usually requires hard work
  • This job asks a lot of patience and skill
  • This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice
  • This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert
  • This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent
  necessitate, need, call for, demand, postulate, involve, ask, take,
• (v) consider obligatory; request and expect
  • We require our secretary to be on time
  • Aren't we asking too much of these children?
  • I expect my students to arrive in time for their lessons
  expect, ask,
• (v) make someone do something command,
• (v) have need of
  • This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner
  need, want,

Synonyms

necessitate need call for demand postulate involve ask take expect command want

Antonyms

obviate rid of eliminate

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