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vaatia — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • accost verb To walk up to someone and speak to them in a forceful or unwelcome way.
  • argue verb To exchange differing opinions, often heatedly.
  • call verb To contact someone by phone, or to cry out or shout to get attention.
  • claim verb To state that something is true, often without having proved it yet.
  • demand noun In economics, people's desire and ability to buy a particular good or service at a given price.
  • exact adjective Perfectly accurate or precise; matching a standard or fact exactly, with nothing added or missing.
  • govern verb To run the political affairs of a country, state, or region.
  • insist verb To state something firmly and repeatedly, refusing to accept disagreement.
  • necessitate verb To make something needed, so that it has to happen.
  • need noun A requirement for something essential or important.
  • require verb To need something as essential.
  • stipulate verb To state clearly as a required condition of an agreement or contract.
  • vindicate verb To free someone from an accusation, suspicion or criticism.

Senses

vaatia is used for these senses in English:

  • argue (intransitive) To debate, disagree, or discuss opposing or differing viewpoints; to controvert; to wrangle.
  • call To come to pass; to afflict.
  • claim To demand ownership or right to use for land.
  • claim (intransitive) To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.
  • demand To request forcefully.
  • demand To require of someone.
  • exact (ambitransitive) To demand and enforce the payment or performance of, sometimes in a forcible or imperious way.
  • govern (transitive, grammar) To require that a certain preposition, grammatical case, etc. be used with a word; sometimes used synonymously with collocate.

accost — full definition

  1. verb To walk up to someone and speak to them in a forceful or unwelcome way.
  2. verb To lie right next to something else, touching its edge.
  3. verb To sail close along the coastline or edge of something.
  4. verb To come close to someone or something.

argue — full definition

  1. verb To exchange differing opinions, often heatedly.
  2. verb To give reasons in support of a position.
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