Synset:ask call for demand involve need postulate require take
Examples:
- 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
Antonyms:obviate
Derivationally Related Form:requirementnecessitydemandneed
Inherited Hypernyms:necessitate
Direct Hyponyms:claimcompelcostcry forcry out fordrawexactgoverntake
Full Troponyms:claimcompelcostcry out fordrawgovern
Sentence Frame:Something ---s something | It ---s that CLAUSE (apply to: necessitate, require) | Somebody ---s somebody to INFINITIVE (apply to: require) | They --- him to write the letter (apply to: need)