impose (verb)

  • 111mulct — / məlkt/ n [Latin multa mulcta]: fine penalty mulct vt Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. mulct …

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  • 112regulation — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 control of sth ADJECTIVE ▪ strict, tight, tough ▪ those opposed to tighter regulation of banks ▪ increased ▪ excessive …

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  • 113humbug — /ˈhʌmbʌg / (say humbug) noun 1. Obsolete a deluding trick; a hoax; a fraud. 2. a quality of falseness or deception. 3. someone who seeks to impose deceitfully upon others; cheat; impostor. 4. Aboriginal English an annoying action: stop that… …

  • 114reimpose — [c]/riɪmˈpoʊz/ (say reeim pohz) verb (reimposed, reimposing) –verb (t) 1. to impose (something) again. –verb (i) 2. to impose again. –reimposition, noun …

  • 115require — [c]/rəˈkwaɪə / (say ruh kwuyuh) verb (required, requiring) –verb (t) 1. to have need of; need: he requires medical care. 2. to call on authoritatively, order, or enjoin (a person, etc.) to do something: to require an agent to account for money… …

  • 116shrive — /ʃraɪv / (say shruyv) verb (shrove or shrived, shriven or shrived, shriving) Archaic –verb (t) 1. to impose penance on for sin. 2. to grant absolution to (a penitent). 3. to confess to a priest, for the purpose of obtaining absolution. 4. to hear …

  • 117List of commonly misused English words — This is a list of English words which are commonly misused. It is meant to include only words whose misuse is deprecated by most usage writers, editors, and other professional linguists of Standard English. It is possible that some of the… …

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  • 118inflict — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. burden or trouble with; impose, put upon; do (to); give. See punishment, compulsion. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To deal] Syn. deliver, mete out, deal out, strike, do to, perpetrate, dispense, give out …

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  • 119linguistics — /ling gwis tiks/, n. (used with a sing. v.) the science of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and historical linguistics. [1850 55; see LINGUISTIC, ICS] * * * Study of the nature and structure of… …

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  • 120faire — 1. faire [ fɛr ] v. tr. <conjug. : 60> • Xe; fazet 3e pers. subj. 842; lat. facere. REM. Les formes en fais (faisons, faisions, etc.) se prononcent [ fəz ] I ♦ Réaliser (un objet : qqch. ou qqn). 1 ♦ Réaliser hors de soi (une chose… …

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