Verb

(impos)

To establish or apply by authority.

* Milton

Death is the penalty imposed .

Congress imposed new tariffs.

* 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/nyregion/new-jersey-continues-to-cope-with-hurricane-sandy.html?hp]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):

Localities across New Jersey imposed curfews to prevent looting. In Monmouth, Ocean and other counties, people waited for hours for gasoline at the few stations that had electricity. Supermarket shelves were stripped bare.

to be an inconvenience

I don't wish to impose upon you.

to enforce: compel to behave in a certain way

Social relations impose courtesy

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To practice a trick or deception.

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.

Verb

(en verb)

(lb) To make strong or stronger; to add strength to; to increase the strength of; to fortify; to reinforce.

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*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:Let noble Warwick, Cobham, and the rest,/ With powerful policy strengthen themselves.

*1851 , Anonymous, Arthur Hamilton, and His Dog

*:A little hardship, and a little struggling with the rougher elements of life, will perchance but strengthen and increase his courage, and prepare him for the conflicts and struggles of after years.

(lb) To animate; to give moral strength to; to encourage; to fix in resolution; to hearten.

*(Bible), (w) iii. 28

*:Charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him.

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*:"A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted, and as he turned to his prisoner. "We'll see him on in Washington some day. He is strengthening his forces now against Mr. Benton out there.."

(lb) To augment; to improve; to intensify.

(lb) To grow strong or stronger.