Meaning

12 senses
  1. To keep up, impose or bring into effect something, not necessarily by force.

    The police are there to enforce the law.

    vollstrecken, durchsetzen

  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.

  4. (obsolete, transitive)To strengthen (a castle, town etc.) with extra troops, fortifications etc.

  5. (obsolete, transitive)To intensify, make stronger, add force to.

  6. (obsolete, reflexive)To exert oneself, to try hard.

    durchsetzen

  7. (obsolete)To compel, oblige (someone or something); to force.

    compel to behave in a certain way

  8. (obsolete)To make or gain by force; to force.

    to enforce a passage

  9. (obsolete)To put in motion or action by violence; to drive.

  10. (obsolete)To give force to; to strengthen; to invigorate; to energize.

    to enforce arguments or requests

  11. (obsolete)To urge; to ply hard; to lay much stress upon.

  12. (obsolete)To prove; to evince.

Examples

68 sentences
  1. I enforce the rules even though I don't agree with them all.

    Я слідкую за дотриманням правил, навіть коли я не згоден з ними всіма. — deniko

    ruЯ слежу за соблюдением правил, даже если не со всеми из них согласен. — marafon

    deIch setze die Regeln durch, wenngleich ich nicht mit allen einverstanden bin. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. How do you enforce these regulations?

  3. That law isn't being enforced anymore.

    ruЭтот закон больше не соблюдается. — BW

  4. The laws are now more strictly enforced.

    ruЗа выполнением законов теперь следят строже. — Wezel

  5. How are they going to enforce that law?

Translations

5 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to keep up:

Origin

From Middle English enforcen, from Old French enforcier, from Late Latin infortiāre, from

From Middle English enforcen, from Old French enforcier, from Late Latin infortiāre, from in- + fortis (“strong”).

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Forms

enforces, enforcing, enforced, enforced
Base formenforce · to enforce
3rd person singularenforces
Present participleenforcing
Past simpleenforced
Past participleenforced

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyenforce
he, she, itenforces

Past simpleLesson

all personsenforced

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave enforced
he, she, ithas enforced

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill enforce

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

14 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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