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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How to use enforce in a sentence?

1. Kerstin Arnold:

   I don't even know where we would go trying to enforce that.

2. Mike Pompeo:

   The arrangement was only as good as your willingness to enforce it, and to watch them, and to call them on it, and to demand, and when they don't comply, to impose real costs on them.

3. Court Judge Callie V. Granade:

   This injunction binds Judge Don Davis and all his officers, agents, servants and employees, and others in active concert or participation with any of them, who would seek to enforce the marriage laws of Alabama which prohibit or fail to recognize same sex marriages.

4. Marco Rubio:

   Immigration is not an issue that I read about ... it's an issue I've lived around my whole life. My family are immigrants. My wife's family are immigrants. All of my neighbors are immigrants, here's what we learned in 2013: The American people don't trust the federal government to enforce our immigration laws, and we will not be able to do anything on immigration until we first prove to the American people that illegal immigration is under control.

5. Henry Cuellar:

   The metric I use, you look at what the law is, and you enforce that law, under that, there will be some that stay under the current asylum laws because that's what the law says. If you get 100 people before an immigration judge, that judge will probably only allow 10 to 12% [to remain]. So my question is, why are we allowing 100% of the people when we should only be allowing 10 to 12%, according to the immigration judges. That's the issue. There are some people that believe in open borders, I do not believe in open borders. There are some people that believe in getting rid of border patrol, getting rid of ICE. I don't believe in that.