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Require

//ɹɪˈkwaɪə// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To demand, to insist upon (having); to call for authoritatively.

    ""I am Miss Newbury," I announced, "and I require to be shown to my room immediately, if you please.""

  2. 2
    make someone do something wordnet
  3. 3
    Naturally to demand (something) as indispensable; to need, to call for as necessary.

    "Chronic pain is occasionally a sign of a very serious problem, like brain tumors, and can require surgery."

  4. 4
    consider obligatory; request and expect wordnet
  5. 5
    To demand (of someone) to do something.

    "It is required (of me) that I give evidence in court."

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  1. 6
    have need of wordnet
  2. 7
    To ask (someone) for something; to request. obsolete

    "I requyre yow lete vs be sworne to gyders that neuer none of vs shalle after this day haue adoo with other, and there with alle syre Tristram and sire Lamorak sware that neuer none of hem shold fyghte ageynst other nor for wele, nor for woo."

  3. 8
    require as useful, just, or proper wordnet

Etymology

From Old French requerre (French: requérir), from Latin requīrō (“I require, seek, ask for”).

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