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
- verb To walk up to someone and speak to them in a forceful or unwelcome way.
- verb To lie right next to something else, touching its edge.
- verb To sail close along the coastline or edge of something.
- verb To come close to someone or something.
argue — full definition
- verb To exchange differing opinions, often heatedly.
- verb To give reasons in support of a position.
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