Enforce: Definition and part of speech

Enforce

  1. n. Force; strength; power.
  2. v. t. To put force upon; to force; to constrain; to compel; as, to enforce obedience to commands.
  3. v. t. To make or gain by force; to obtain by force; as, to enforce a passage.
  4. v. t. To put in motion or action by violence; to drive.
  5. v. t. To give force to; to strengthen; to invigorate; to urge with energy; as, to enforce arguments or requests.
  6. v. t. To put in force; to cause to take effect; to give effect to; to execute with vigor; as, to enforce the laws.
  7. v. t. To urge; to ply hard; to lay much stress upon.
  8. v. i. To attempt by force.
  9. v. i. To prove; to evince.
  10. v. i. To strengthen; to grow strong.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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