must

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/məst/

verb 5noun 5

Collocations

ADJ.

careful, known, live, tired, wrong

You must be careful with that knife or you'll cut yourself.

VERB + MUST

borrow, felt, fermenting, handle, map, think, told

I felt I must borrow some money from my parents to pay for the car repair.

MUST + NOUN

advantage, class, friends, grammar, o'erflows, room, something

You must have friends who understand what you're going through in difficult times.

PREP.

about, in, in, off, on, up, upon

There's a lot of dust about the old attic that we must clean up before winter.

ADV.

fully

You must fully understand the contract before you sign it.

Definitions

verb

To do as a requirement; indicates that the sentence subject is required as an imperative or directive to execute the sentence predicate, with failure to do so resulting in a failure or negative consequence.

You must arrive in class on time.

This door handle must be rotated fully.

To do with certainty; indicates that the speaker is certain that the subject will have executed the predicate.

If it has rained all day, it must be very wet outside.

Where would you have put the keyring? You couldn’t have lost it again! - I must have, because it's nowhere to be found.

Used to indicate that something is very likely, probable, or certain to be true.

The children must be asleep by now.

There's the doorbell. It must be Dad.

noun

Something that is mandatory, required or recommended.

If you're trekking all day, a map is a must.

"There are no musts in my life - I'm free, white, and twenty-one."

noun

The property of being stale or musty.

Something that exhibits the property of being stale or musty.

Fruit juice that will ferment or has fermented, usually from grapes.

No sweet grape lies hidden here in the shade of its vine-leaves, No fermenting must fills and o'erflows the deep vats.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — the quality of smelling or tasting old or stale or mouldy

mustiness
moldiness

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

I must go

I must leave

cooler heads must prevail

Alternative form of cooler heads will prevail.

cool heads must prevail

Alternative form of cooler heads will prevail.

the show must go on

Regardless of what happens, whatever show has been planned still has to be staged for the waiting patrons.

Two other very personal issues that Holly discloses are her ongoing struggle to maintain a weight she feels comfortable with, and her virtual breakdown from exhaustion in 1984. Her

what goes up must come down

All trends will end; a rise (in the stock market, in a person's political or social influence, etc.) will be followed by a fall.

Example Bank

You must arrive in class on time.

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This door handle must be rotated fully.

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Everybody told me I must stop worrying, but I couldn't, because I felt there must be something wrong.

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If you're trekking all day, a map is a must.

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"There are no musts in my life - I'm free, white, and twenty-one."

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No sweet grape lies hidden here in the shade of its vine-leaves, No fermenting must fills and o'erflows the deep vats.

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