impose
Meaning of impose
verb
- To establish or apply by authority.
Congress imposed new tariffs.
- To be an inconvenience (on or upon)
I don't wish to impose upon you.
- To enforce: compel to behave in a certain way
Social relations impose courtesy
- To practice a trick or deception (on or upon).
- To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination.
- To arrange in proper order on a table of stone or metal and lock up in a chase for printing; said of columns or pages of type, forms, etc.
Information about impose
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of impose is: imposes.
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CatalanHyphenation of impose
im-pose
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- impose is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
impose synonyms
Meaning enforce:
Meaning inflict:
Meaning levy:
Translation of impose
- Italian: imporre
- German: durchsetzen
- Spanish: imponer
- French: imposer
- Portuguese: impor
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