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Require

To demand; to insist upon having; to claim as by right and authority; to exact; as, to require the surrender of property.

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Verb group 6

Claim 84% connected

To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.

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Claim 84% connected

To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Exact 84% connected

Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect; true; correct; pr…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Exact 84% connected

Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect; true; correct; pr…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Broader term 12

Be 76% connected

To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.

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Concern 76% connected

To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Demand 76% connected

To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily;…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Enjoin 76% connected

To lay upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to charge.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Exist 76% connected

To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.

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Order 76% connected

Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system

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Pertain 76% connected

To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocea…

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Refer 76% connected

To carry or send back.

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Relate 76% connected

To bring back; to restore.

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Say 76% connected

Saw.

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Tell 76% connected

To mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell money.

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Touch 76% connected

To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.

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Manner of action 28

Behoove 76% connected

To be necessary for; to be fit for; to be meet for, with respect to necessity, duty, or convenience; -- mostly used impersonally.

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Behove 76% connected

and derivatives. See Behoove, &c.

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Burden 76% connected

That which is borne or carried; a load.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Call 76% connected

To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant.

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Charge 76% connected

To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.

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Claim 76% connected

To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.

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Compel 76% connected

To drive or urge with force, or irresistibly; to force; to constrain; to oblige; to necessitate, either by physical or moral force.

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Cost 76% connected

A rib; a side; a region or coast.

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Cry 76% connected

To make a loud call or cry; to call or exclaim vehemently or earnestly; to shout; to vociferate; to proclaim; to pray; to implore.

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Depend 76% connected

To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above.

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Deserve 76% connected

To earn by service; to be worthy of (something due, either good or evil); to merit; to be entitled to; as, the laborer deserves his wages; a work of…

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Disallow 76% connected

To refuse to allow; to deny the force or validity of; to disown and reject; as, the judge disallowed the executor's charge.

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Draw 76% connected

To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.

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Exact 76% connected

Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect; true; correct; pr…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Forbid 76% connected

of Forbid

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Govern 76% connected

To direct and control, as the actions or conduct of men, either by established laws or by arbitrary will; to regulate by authority.

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Interdict 76% connected

To forbid; to prohibit or debar; as, to interdict intercourse with foreign nations.

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Merit 76% connected

The quality or state of deserving well or ill; desert.

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Need 76% connected

A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.

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Nix 76% connected

One of a class of water spirits, commonly described as of a mischievous disposition.

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Occupy 76% connected

To take or hold possession of; to hold or keep for use; to possess.

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Prohibit 76% connected

To forbid by authority; to interdict; as, God prohibited Adam from eating of the fruit of a certain tree; we prohibit a person from doing a thing, an…

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Proscribe 76% connected

To doom to destruction; to put out of the protection of law; to outlaw; to exile; as, Sylla and Marius proscribed each other's adherents.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Requisition 76% connected

The act of requiring, as of right; a demand or application made as by authority.

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Ride 76% connected

To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse.

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Saddle 76% connected

A seat for a rider, -- usually made of leather, padded to span comfortably a horse's back, furnished with stirrups for the rider's feet to rest in, a…

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Take 76% connected

Taken.

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Veto 76% connected

An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.

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Derivationally related 12

Expectation 74% connected

The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Expectation 74% connected

The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Necessity 74% connected

The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite; inevitableness; indispensableness.

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Necessity 74% connected

The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite; inevitableness; indispensableness.

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Needer 74% connected

One who needs anything.

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Needer 74% connected

One who needs anything.

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Requirement 74% connected

The act of requiring; demand; requisition.

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Requirement 74% connected

The act of requiring; demand; requisition.

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Requisition 74% connected

The act of requiring, as of right; a demand or application made as by authority.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Requisition 74% connected

The act of requiring, as of right; a demand or application made as by authority.

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Want 74% connected

The state of not having; the condition of being without anything; absence or scarcity of what is needed or desired; deficiency; lack; as, a want of p…

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Want 74% connected

The state of not having; the condition of being without anything; absence or scarcity of what is needed or desired; deficiency; lack; as, a want of p…

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Synonym 10

Ask 92% connected

To request; to seek to obtain by words; to petition; to solicit; -- often with of, in the sense of from, before the person addressed.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Command 92% connected

To order with authority; to lay injunction upon; to direct; to bid; to charge.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Demand 92% connected

To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily;…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Expect 92% connected

To wait for; to await.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Involve 92% connected

To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Necessitate 92% connected

To make necessary or indispensable; to render unaviolable.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Need 92% connected

A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Postulate 92% connected

Something demanded or asserted; especially, a position or supposition assumed without proof, or one which is considered as self-evident; a truth to w…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Take 92% connected

Taken.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Want 92% connected

The state of not having; the condition of being without anything; absence or scarcity of what is needed or desired; deficiency; lack; as, a want of p…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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