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enforce

/ɪnˈfoɹs/ verbo B2

En español: hacer cumplir/respetar, enforzar

  1. To keep up, impose or bring into effect something, not necessarily by force. · The police are there to enforce the law.
  2. To apply a rule or enforcement action to a person or user account. · This will give us the tools we need to enforce accounts like these.
  3. To give strength or force to; to affirm, to emphasize. · The victim was able to enforce his evidence against the alleged perpetrator.

He/she/it enforces · Pasado enforced · Participio pasado enforced · Forma en -ing enforcing

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De la biblioteca

He saw before him an officer delegated to enforce the law, and perfectly well knew that it would be as unavailing to seek pity from a magistrate decked with his official scarf, as to address a petition to some cold marble effigy.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 31 · C1
Yes, I heard this news, and knew it even before you could; for three days ago I posted from Marseilles to Paris with all possible speed, half-desperate at the enforced delay.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 111 · C1
He is connected with the Mafia, which, as you know, is a secret political society, enforcing its decrees by murder.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 85 · C1
I described and enforced them earnestly.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 230 · B2

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