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enforce

/ɪnˈfoɹs/

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What does enforce mean?

verb

  1. To keep up, impose or bring into effect something, not necessarily by force.
  2. To apply a rule or enforcement action to a person or user account.
  3. To give strength or force to; to affirm, to emphasize.
More meanings (9)

verb

  1. (obsolete) To strengthen (a castle, town etc.) with extra troops, fortifications etc.
  2. (obsolete) To intensify, make stronger, add force to.
  3. (obsolete) To exert oneself, to try hard.
  4. (obsolete) To compel, oblige (someone or something); to force.
  5. (obsolete) To make or gain by force; to force.
  6. (obsolete) To put in motion or action by violence; to drive.
  7. (obsolete) To give force to; to strengthen; to invigorate; to energize.
  8. (obsolete) To urge; to ply hard; to lay much stress upon.
  9. (obsolete) To prove; to evince.

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IPA pronunciation

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“Am I, now? Why, I thought I was talking good, quite remarkably for me. I try to enforce your remarks, Marie, always.”
Harriet Beecher StoweUncle Tom's CabinProject Gutenberg ebook #203
Become a mere agency for the supply of information, the press has renounced all endeavour to enforce an idea or a doctrine.
Gustave Le BonThe crowd : $b A study of the popular mindProject Gutenberg ebook #445
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Kansas has learned some dear lessons, and she will be wise indeed when she learns that only Prohibitionists will enforce prohibition laws.
Carry Amelia NationThe Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. NationProject Gutenberg ebook #1485
Behold, I am but a man, and I have but the strength of a man, and I cannot any longer enforce my commands.
Joseph, Jr. Smith; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SaintsThe Book of Mormon : $b an account written by the hand of Mormon, upon plates taken from the plates of NephiProject Gutenberg ebook #17
I will no more enforce mine office on you, Humbly entreating from your royal thoughts A modest one to bear me back again.
William ShakespeareThe Complete Works of William ShakespeareProject Gutenberg ebook #100