enjoin
Meaning of enjoin
verb
- instruct or urge (someone) to do something.
the code enjoined members to trade fairly
Middle English (formerly also as injoin ): from Old French enjoindre, from Latin injungere ‘join, attach, impose’, from in- ‘in, towards’ + jungere ‘to join’.
Information about enjoin
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of enjoin is: enjoins.
- Languages in which enjoin is used:
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Hyphenation of enjoin
en-join
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- enjoin is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
enjoin synonyms
Meaning order:
Meaning encourage (a person or animal) to move more quickly or in a particular direction:
Meaning give support, confidence, or hope to (someone):
Meaning urge or request (someone) solemnly or earnestly to do something:
Meaning advise or urge (someone) earnestly:
Meaning move or cause to move into a position of contact with something by exerting continuous physical force:
Meaning (of an event or fact) cause or bring about (an action or feeling):
Meaning poke with a finger, foot, or pointed object:
Meaning provoke or annoy (someone) so as to stimulate an action or reaction:
Meaning urge (a horse) forward by digging one's spurs into its sides:
Meaning exert force on (someone or something) in order to move them away from oneself:
Meaning attempt to persuade or coerce (someone) into doing something:
Meaning produce or maintain raised pressure artificially in (a gas or its container):
Meaning tell or order someone to do something, especially in a formal or official way:
Meaning give an authoritative or peremptory order:
Meaning give (someone) an official order or authoritative instruction:
Meaning (of someone in authority) instruct or expect (someone) to do something:
Meaning ask authoritatively or brusquely:
Meaning demand (an amount) as a price for a service rendered or goods supplied:
Meaning inform someone in advance of a possible danger, problem, or other unpleasant situation:
Meaning ask someone earnestly or anxiously to do something:
Meaning strongly encourage or urge (someone) to do something:
Meaning beg someone earnestly or desperately to do something:
Meaning ask someone earnestly or humbly for something:
Meaning ask (someone) urgently and fervently to do something; implore; entreat:
Meaning harass (someone) constantly to do something that they are averse to:
Meaning offer (a certain price) for something, especially at an auction:
Translation of enjoin
- Spanish: ordenar, dictar, prescribir, recetar, preceptuar, decir, indicar
- French: ordonner, prescrire
- German: anordnen, befehlen, anweisen
- Italian: dire, ordinare, comandare
Words that rhyme with enjoin
join, subjoin, adjoin, rejoin, sejoin, surrejoin, benjoin, conjoin, injoin, reconjoin, reenjoin, unjoin, cojoin, interjoin, underjoin, disjoin, misjoin
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