necessitate

Verb
  1. Require as useful, just, or proper (synset 202634015)
    "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"
    subtypes:
    • claim, exact, take - take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs
    • govern - require to be in a certain grammatical case, voice, or mood
    • draw - require a specified depth for floating
    • cost - require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice
    • cry for, cry out for - need badly or desperately
    • compel - necessitate or exact
    same as: ask, call for, demand, involve, need, postulate, require, take
    verb group: claim, exact, take - take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs
  2. Cause to be a concomitant (synset 202641628)
    is a type of: lead - tend to or result in
    subtypes: entail, imply, mean - have as a logical consequence

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