enforce.
To keep up, impose or bring into effect something, not necessarily by force.
Meaning & usage
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.
To strengthen (a castle, town etc.) with extra troops, fortifications etc.
To intensify, make stronger, add force to.
To exert oneself, to try hard.
To compel, oblige (someone or something); to force.
To make or gain by force; to force.
to enforce a passage
To put in motion or action by violence; to drive.
To give force to; to strengthen; to invigorate; to energize.
to enforce arguments or requests
To urge; to ply hard; to lay much stress upon.
To prove; to evince.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English enforcen, from Old French enforcier, from Late Latin infortiāre, from in- + fortis (“strong”).
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