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

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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. 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.

2. Duyeon Kim:

   China and Russia will not fully enforce even existing sanctions, geopolitically it would be difficult to designate new sanctions without a very convincing rationale for Beijing, Moscow and even South Korea's Moon government.

3. President Barack Obama:

   One of the most frustrating things that I hear is when people say -- who are opposed to any further laws -- 'Why don't you just enforce the laws that are on the books?' and those very same members of Congress then cut (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) budgets to make it impossible to enforce the law.

4. Pat Toomey:

   Any educator who sexually abuses a child should feel the full force of the law and never be allowed to enter a classroom again, i have repeatedly encouraged the Department of Education to urgently investigate this problem and use its authority to enforce existing law.

5. Marco Rubio:

   I was here a few days ago repeatedly heckled by this group ... and I told them, 'We're going to enforce our immigration laws,' as the son and grandson of immigrants, I know for a fact that enforcing our immigration laws is not anti-immigrant, it's what sovereign countries do.