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necessitate verb [ nɪˈsɛsɪteɪt ]

• make (something) necessary as a result or consequence.
• "a cut which necessitated eighteen stitches"
Similar: make necessary, entail, involve, mean, require, demand, call for, be grounds for, warrant, leave no choice but to, oblige, compel, constrain, exact, force,
Origin: early 17th century: from medieval Latin necessitat- ‘compelled’, from the verb necessitare, based on Latin necesse ‘be needful’.


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