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

(oppos)

To attempt to stop the progression of; to resist or antagonize by physical means, or by arguments, etc.; to contend against; to confront; to resist; to withstand.

to oppose''' the king in battle; to '''oppose a bill in Congress

There is still time to oppose this plan.

To object to.

Many religious leaders oppose cloning humans.

To present or set up in opposition; to pose.

They are opposed to any form of hierarchy.

* John Locke

I may oppose my single opinion to his.

* 1839 , Philip Meadows Taylor, Confessions of a Thug

[T]hree walls had been left standing, with large intervals between each; and they would certainly oppose a most formidable interruption to an invader.

To place in front of, or over against; to set opposite; to exhibit.

* Shakespeare

Her grace sat down / In a rich chair of state; opposing freely / The beauty of her person to the people.

To compete with; to strive against.

to oppose a rival for a prize

* Shakespeare

I am too weak / To oppose your cunning.