Synonyms for enforce
Definitions
- v. 1
To compel, oblige (someone or something); to force.
- v. 2
To keep up, impose or bring into effect something, not necessarily by force.
The police are there to enforce the law.
Related words
- Word family
- enforceability enforcement enforcer
Forms
- Past participle
- enforced
e.g. enforced → imposed, constrained, compelled, obliged…
Choose the right word
Enforce signifies also to present and urge home by intellectual and moral force; as, to enforce a precept or a duty.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- impose We should not impose our opinions on other people.
- compel I compel you to adhere to our master's teachings.
- constrain What human trespass would constrain thy power, O Zeus?
- apply I didn't apply for the job that Tom told me about.
- implement That tractor implement makes burrows in the field.
- require I require absolute loyalty from all my employees.
By length
- 5 letters
- press1, force1, apply2, exact2
- 6 letters
- impose2, compel2, oblige2
- 7 letters
- require3, execute3
- 9 letters
- implement3, constrain2
- 11 letters
- necessitate4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (apply2 = 2 syllables).