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en·force    Audio Help   (ěn-fôrs', -fōrs')  Pronunciation Key  tr.v.   en·forced, en·forc·ing, en·forc·es To compel observance of or obedience to: enforce a law. To impose (a kind of behavior, for example): enforce military discipline. To give force to; reinforce: "enforces its plea with a description of the pains of hell" (Albert C. Baugh). [Middle English enforcen, from Old French enforcier, to exert force, compel, and from enforcir, to strengthen : en-, causative pref.; see en-1 + force, strength; see force.] en·force'a·bil'i·ty n., en·force'a·ble adj., en·force'ment n., en·forc'er n.

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enforced

adjective

forced or compelled or put in force; "a life of enforced inactivity"; "enforced obedience" [ant: unenforced]

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Main Entry: en·force
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Forms: en·forced; en·forc·ing
: to cause to take effect or to befulfilled <enforcing the divorce decree> <Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation —U.S. Constitution amendment XIX>

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Enforced

En*force"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enforced; p. pr. & vb. n. Enforcing.] [OF. enforcier to strengthen, force, F. enforcir; pref. en- (L. in) + F. force. See Force.]

1. To put force upon; to force; to constrain; to compel; as, to enforce obedience to commands.

Inward joy enforced my heart to smile. --Shak.

2. To make or gain by force; to obtain by force; as, to enforce a passage. "Enforcing furious way." --Spenser.

3. To put in motion or action by violence; to drive.

As swift as stones Enforced from the old Assyrian slings. --Shak.

4. To give force to; to strengthen; to invigorate; to urge with energy; as, to enforce arguments or requests.

Enforcing sentiment of the thrust humanity. --Burke.

5. To put in force; to cause to take effect; to give effect to; to execute with vigor; as, to enforce the laws.

6. To urge; to ply hard; to lay much stress upon.

Enforce him with his envy to the people. --Shak.

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