Synonyms for enforce
ɛnˈfɔrs, -ˈfoʊrsen·force

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1. enforce

   To execute is to follow through to the end, put into absolute and final effect in action; to administer is to conduct as one holding a trust, as a minister and not an originator; the sheriff executes a writ; the trustee administers an estate, a charity, etc.; to enforce is to put into effect by force, actual or potential. To administer the laws is the province of a court of justice; to execute the laws is the province of a sheriff, marshal, constable, or other executive officer; to administer the law is to declare or apply it; to execute the law is to put it in force; for this enforce is the more general word, execute the more specific. From signifying to superintend officially some application or infliction, administer passes by a natural transition to signify inflict, mete out, dispense, and blows, medicine, etc., are said to be administered: a usage thoroughly established and reputable in spite of pedantic objections. Enforce signifies also to present and urge home by intellectual and moral force; as, to enforce a precept or a duty. Compare DO; KILL; MAKE.

   Synonyms:
   administer, carry out, do, execute, perform

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1. enforce

   Synonyms:
   urge, compel, require, exact, exert, strain

   Antonyms:
   relax, waive, forego, remit, abandon

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:4.0 / 2 votes

1. enforce, implement, applyverb

   ensure observance of laws and rules

   "Apply the rules to everyone";

   Synonyms:
   lend oneself, follow out, carry out, follow through, implement, employ, give, go through, hold, utilise, put on, follow up, use, impose, practice, put through, utilize, go for, apply

   Antonyms:
   free, relieve, exempt

2. enforce, imposeverb

   compel to behave in a certain way

   "Social relations impose courtesy"

   Synonyms:
   implement, bring down, visit, levy, impose, inflict, apply

   Antonyms:
   free, relieve, exempt

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1. enforceverb

   Synonyms:
   give force to, urge with energy, set forth strongly, impress on the mind

2. enforceverb

   Synonyms:
   put in execution, put in force

3. enforceverb

   Synonyms:
   constrain, compel, oblige, force, require

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:4.5 / 2 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "enforce":

   implement, impose, apply, enforcing, uphold, implementation, assert, enforcement, implementing, execute

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1. Jon Choi:

   My strong hunch is that AI assistants will become standard tools for lawyers in the near future, and law schools should prepare their students for that eventuality, of course, if law professors want to continue to test simple recall of legal rules and doctrines, they’ll need to put restrictions in place like banning the internet during exams to enforce that.

2. Judd Deere:

   The perimeter was expanded to help enforce the 7 p.m. curfew in the same area where rioters attempted to burn down one of our nations most historic churches the night before. Protesters were given three warnings by the U.S. Park Police.

3. Ki Mo-ran:

   To prevent imported cases, it will be better to enforce a two-week quarantine on all arrivals, the country needs to reinforce its quarantine measures on people coming from other virus-hit countries in addition to Europe.

4. Ted Lieu:

   Congress' power will not be abdicated. We will enforce it, we can start imposing fines on that person immediately upon contempt off the House floor. And we will go there if he does not cooperate.

5. Jennifer Dillaha:

   We have a weak immunization infrastructure, consequently, because there are access issues, it varies from school to school how rigidly they enforce attendance requirements for vaccinations.