Enforce vs Intrude - What's the difference?
enforce | intrude |
(obsolete) To strengthen (a castle, town etc.) with extra troops, fortifications etc.
(obsolete) To intensify, make stronger, add force to.
(obsolete, reflexive) To exert oneself, to try hard.
*, Bk.VII:
*:I pray you enforce youreselff at that justis that ye may be beste, for my love.
To give strength or force to; to affirm, to emphasize.
:The victim was able to enforce his evidence against the alleged perpetrator.
(archaic) To compel, oblige (someone or something); to force.
*, I.2.4.iv:
*:Uladislaus the Second, King of Poland, and Peter Dunnius, Earl of Shrinehad been hunting late, and were enforced to lodge in a poor cottage.
*1899 , E. OE. Somerville and Martin Ross, Some Experiences of an Irish R.M.'', Great Uncle McCarthy :
*:In a few minutes I was stealthily groping my way down my own staircase, with a box of matches in my hand, enforced by scientific curiosity, but none the less armed with a stick.
To keep up, impose or bring into effect something, not necessarily by force.
:The police are there to enforce the law.
(obsolete) To make or gain by force; to force.
:to enforce a passage
*Spenser
*:enforcing furious way
(obsolete) To put in motion or action by violence; to drive.
*Shakespeare
*:As swift as stones / Enforced from the old Assyrian slings.
(obsolete) To give force to; to strengthen; to invigorate; to urge with energy.
:to enforce arguments or requests
*Burke
*:enforcing sentiment of the thrust humanity
(obsolete) To urge; to ply hard; to lay much stress upon.
*Shakespeare
*:Enforce him with his envy to the people.
To prove; to evince.
:(Hooker)
To thrust oneself in; to come or enter without invitation, permission, or welcome; to encroach; to trespass.
* I. Watts
As verbs the difference between enforce and intrude
is that enforce is (obsolete|transitive) to strengthen (a castle, town etc) with extra troops, fortifications etc while intrude is to thrust oneself in; to come or enter without invitation, permission, or welcome; to encroach; to trespass.enforce
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Alternative forms
* inforce (obsolete)Verb
(enforc)Derived terms
* enforcer * enforcementintrude
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Verb
(intrud)- to intrude''' on families at unseasonable hours; to '''intrude on the lands of another
- Some thoughts rise and intrude upon us, while we shun them; others fly from us, when we would hold them.
