'Require' definitions:
Definition of 'require'
(from WordNet)
verb
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" [syn: necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for, demand] [ant: eliminate, obviate, rid of]
verb
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" [syn: ask, require, expect]
verb
Make someone do something [syn: command, require]
verb
Definition of 'Require'
From: GCIDE
- Require \Re*quire"\ (r?-kw?r"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Required (-kw?rd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Requiring.] [OE. requeren, requiren, OF. requerre, F. requ?rir; L. pref. re- re- + quaerere to ask; cf. L. requirere. See Query, and cf. Request, Requisite.]
- 1. To demand; to insist upon having; to claim as by right and authority; to exact; as, to require the surrender of property. [1913 Webster]
- Shall I say to Caesar What you require of him? --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- By nature did what was by law required. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To demand or exact as indispensable; to need. [1913 Webster]
- Just gave what life required, and gave no more. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster]
- The two last [biographies] require to be particularly noticed. --J. A. Symonds. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To ask as a favor; to request. [1913 Webster]
- I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way. --Ezra viii. 22. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To claim; exact; enjoin; prescribe; direct; order; demand; need. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'require'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- affect,
- appoint,
- ask,
- ask for,
- assess,
- assume,
- authorize,
- be hurting for,
- be indicated,
- bind,
- blackmail,
- bring,
- brook no denial,
- call,
- call for,
- challenge,
- charge,
- charge for,
- claim,
- clamor for,
- coerce,
- command,
- commit,
- comprise,
- contain,
- crave,
- cry for,
- cry out for,
- demand,
- desire,
- dictate,
- entail,
- exact,
- extort,
- force,
- have occasion for,
- implicate,
- imply,
- impose,
- indent,
- insist,
- instruct,
- involve,
- issue an ultimatum,
- lack,
- lay down,
- lead to,
- leave no option,
- levy,
- make,
- make a demand,
- make dutiable,
- make imperative,
- make incumbent,
- make obligatory,
- miss,
- necessitate,
- need,
- obligate,
- oblige,
- order,
- order up,
- place an order,
- pledge,
- postulate,
- prerequire,
- prescribe,
- presume,
- presuppose,
- pro rata,
- prorate,
- put in requisition,
- requisition,
- run short of,
- saddle with,
- screw,
- set,
- solicit,
- stick for,
- subsume,
- take,
- take doing,
- take in,
- take no denial,
- tax,
- tie,
- tithe,
- want,
- want doing,
- warn