English Dictionary

enforce

/ɪnˈfɔɹs/

verb

To keep up, impose or bring into effect something, not necessarily by force. / To give strength or force to; to affirm, to emphasize.

The police officer is responsible for enforcing the law.

意味（1）

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

The police are there to enforce the law.

意味（2）

To give strength or force to; to affirm, to emphasize.

The victim was able to enforce his evidence against the alleged perpetrator.

意味（3）

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

意味（4）

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

意味（5）

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

I pray you enforce youreselff at that justis that ye may be beste, for my love.

意味（6）

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

Sweete prince I come, these these thy amorous lines, / Might haue enforst me to haue swum from France, / And like Leander gaspt vpon the sande, / So thou wouldst smile and take me in thy armes.

意味（7）

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

to enforce a passage

意味（8）

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

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意味（9）

(obsolete) To give force to; to strengthen; to invigorate; to urge with energy.

to enforce arguments or requests

意味（10）

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

In this point charge him home, that he affects / Tyrannical power: if he evade us there, / Enforce him with his envy to the people, / And that the spoil got on the Antiates / Was ne’er distributed.

意味（11）

(obsolete) To prove; to evince.

But what argument are ye able to shew, whereby it was euer prooued by Caluin, that any one sentence of Scripture doth necessarily enforce these things, or the rest wherein your opinion concurreth with his against the orders of your owne Church?