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To be obliged or required by morality, law, or custom: Citizens must register in order to vote.
(auxiliary-verb)
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To be compelled, as by a physical necessity or requirement: Plants must have oxygen in order to live.
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Used to express a command or admonition: You must not go there alone. You simply must be careful.
(auxiliary-verb)
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To be determined to; have as a fixed resolve: If you must leave, do it quietly.
(auxiliary-verb)
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Used to indicate inevitability or certainty: We all must die.
(auxiliary-verb)
American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.