enjoining

Meaning of enjoining

verb, gerund or present participle
  1. 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 enjoining

  • It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of enjoining

en-join-ing

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
  • enjoining is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

enjoining synonyms

Meaning injunction:

injunction, enjoinment

Meaning encourage (a person or animal) to move more quickly or in a particular direction:

urge

Meaning give support, confidence, or hope to (someone):

encourage

Meaning urge or request (someone) solemnly or earnestly to do something:

adjure

Meaning advise or urge (someone) earnestly:

admonish

Meaning move or cause to move into a position of contact with something by exerting continuous physical force:

press

Meaning (of an event or fact) cause or bring about (an action or feeling):

prompt

Meaning poke with a finger, foot, or pointed object:

prod

Meaning provoke or annoy (someone) so as to stimulate an action or reaction:

goad

Meaning urge (a horse) forward by digging one's spurs into its sides:

spur

Meaning exert force on (someone or something) in order to move them away from oneself:

push

Meaning attempt to persuade or coerce (someone) into doing something:

pressure

Meaning produce or maintain raised pressure artificially in (a gas or its container):

pressurize

Meaning tell or order someone to do something, especially in a formal or official way:

instruct

Meaning give an authoritative instruction to do something:

order

Meaning give an authoritative or peremptory order:

command

Meaning give (someone) an official order or authoritative instruction:

direct

Meaning order or advise someone to do something:

tell

Meaning (of someone in authority) instruct or expect (someone) to do something:

require

Meaning ask authoritatively or brusquely:

demand

Meaning demand (an amount) as a price for a service rendered or goods supplied:

charge

Meaning inform someone in advance of a possible danger, problem, or other unpleasant situation:

warn

Meaning ask someone earnestly or anxiously to do something:

entreat

Meaning strongly encourage or urge (someone) to do something:

exhort

Meaning beg someone earnestly or desperately to do something:

implore

Meaning ask someone earnestly or humbly for something:

beg

Meaning ask (someone) urgently and fervently to do something; implore; entreat:

beseech

Meaning harass (someone) constantly to do something that they are averse to:

nag

Meaning offer (a certain price) for something, especially at an auction:

bid

Words that rhyme with enjoining

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