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Synonyms for enforce

verb

  1. To add strength

    reinforce, fortify, support; see strengthen.

  2. To require compliance

    urge, compel, impose, exert, drive, demand, carry out vigorously, put in force, implement, invoke, have executed, expect, dictate, exact, require, pressure, constrain, execute, administer, coerce, oblige, insist upon, emphasize, necessitate, press, impel, make, sanction, wrest, extort, force, stress, spur, hound*, dragoon*, whip*, lash*, put the screws on*, crack down*, clamp down*, get tough*.

    Antonyms abandon*, neglect, waive.

See enforce in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II


verb

To compel observance of:

carry out, effect, execute, implement, invoke. Idioms: put in force, put into action. See obligation, over

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