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Adjective demanding has 1 sense
- demanding - requiring more than usually expected or thought due; especially great patience and effort and skill; "found the job very demanding"; "a baby can be so demanding"
Antonyms: undemanding, easy, lenient, easygoing, light, unexacting
Verb demand has 6 senses
- demand - request urgently and forcefully; "The victim's family is demanding compensation"; "The boss demanded that he be fired immediately"; "She demanded to see the manager"
--1 is one way to request, bespeak, call for, quest
Sample sentence:
They demand to move
- necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for, demand - 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 postulates a patient's consent"
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something
- demand, exact - claim as due or just; "The bank demanded payment of the loan"
--3 is one way to claim
Sample sentence:
The banks demand the check
- demand - lay legal claim to
--4 is one way to claim
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- demand - summon to court
--5 is one way to summon, summons, cite
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
- demand - ask to be informed of; "I demand an explanation"
--6 is one way to request, bespeak, call for, quest
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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