enforce
/ɪnˈfoɹs/ verb B2- To keep up, impose or bring into effect something, not necessarily by force. · The police are there to enforce the law.
- 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.
- 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 · Past enforced · Past participle enforced · -ing form enforcing
Verb forms
- Base form
- enforce
- He/she/it
- enforces
- Past
- enforced
- Past participle
- enforced
- -ing form
- enforcing
From the library
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.
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.”
He is connected with the Mafia, which, as you know, is a secret political society, enforcing its decrees by murder.
I described and enforced them earnestly.
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