Synonyms of the word enforce


ENFORCEAPPLY - COMPEL - IMPLEMENT - IMPOSE - OBLIGATE - OBLIGE

enforce

  • v. To keep up, impose or bring into effect something, not necessarily by force.
  • v. To give strength or force to; to affirm, to emphasize.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To strengthen (a castle, town etc.) with extra troops, fortifications etc.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To intensify, make stronger, add force to.
  • v. (obsolete, reflexive) To exert oneself, to try hard.
  • v. (obsolete) To compel, oblige (someone or something); to force.
  • v. (obsolete) To make or gain by force; to force.
  • v. (obsolete) To put in motion or action by violence; to drive.
  • v. (obsolete) To give force to; to strengthen; to invigorate; to urge with energy.
  • v. (obsolete) To urge; to ply hard; to lay much stress upon.
  • v. (obsolete) To prove; to evince.

apply

  • v. (transitive) To lay or place; to put (one thing to another).
  • v. (transitive) To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case; to appropriate;…
  • v. (transitive) To make use of, declare, or pronounce, as suitable, fitting, or relative; as, to apply the…
  • v. (transitive) To fix closely; to engage and employ diligently, or with attention; to attach; to incline.
  • v. (transitive) To betake; to address; to refer; generally used reflexively.
  • v. (intransitive) To submit oneself as a candidate (with the adposition "to" designating the recipient of…
  • v. (intransitive) To pertain or be relevant to a specified individual or group.
  • v. (obsolete) To busy; to keep at work; to ply.
  • v. (obsolete) To visit.
  • adj. Alternative spelling of appley.

compel

  • v. (transitive, archaic, literally) To drive together, round up.
  • v. (transitive) To overpower; to subdue.
  • v. (transitive) To force, constrain or coerce.
  • v. (transitive) To exact, extort, (make) produce by force.
  • v. (obsolete) To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate.
  • v. (obsolete) To gather or unite in a crowd or company.
  • v. (obsolete) To call forth; to summon.

implement

  • n. A tool or instrument for working with.
  • v. to bring about; to put into practice.
  • v. to carry out; to do.

impose

  • v. (transitive) To establish or apply by authority.
  • v. (intransitive) to be an inconvenience.
  • v. to enforce: compel to behave in a certain way.
  • v. To practice a trick or deception.
  • v. To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination.
  • v. To arrange in proper order on a table of stone or metal and lock up in a chase for printing; said of columns…

obligate

  • v. (transitive, Canada, US, Scotland) To bind, compel, constrain, or oblige by a social, legal, or moral…
  • v. (transitive, Canada, US, Scotland) To cause to be grateful or indebted; to oblige.
  • v. (transitive, Canada, US, Scotland) To commit (money, for example) in order to fulfill an obligation.
  • adj. (biology) Able to exist or survive only in a particular environment or by assuming a particular role.
  • adj. Absolutely indispensable; essential.

oblige

  • v. (transitive) To constrain someone by force or by social, moral or legal means.
  • v. (transitive) To do someone a service or favour (hence, originally, creating an obligation).
  • v. (intransitive) To be indebted to someone.
  • v. (intransitive) To do a service or favour.

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