enforcing

Verb

enforce (third-person singular simple present enforces, present participle enforcing, simple past and past participle enforced)

1. To keep up, impose or bring into effect something, not necessarily by force.
   • The police are there to enforce the law.
2. To apply a rule or enforcement action to a person or user account.
   • This will give us the tools we need to enforce accounts like these.
3. To give strength or force to; to affirm, to emphasize.
   • The victim was able to enforce his evidence against the alleged perpetrator.
4. (obsolete, transitive) To strengthen (a castle, town etc.) with extra troops, fortifications etc.
5. (obsolete, transitive) To intensify, make stronger, add force to.
6. (obsolete, reflexive) To exert oneself, to try hard.
   • I pray you enforce youreselff at that justis that ye may be beste, for my love.1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book VII, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich]...

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