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inroll

inroll is the obsolete form of enroll.

Meaning of enroll

Verb

enroll (third-person singular simple present enrolls, present participle enrolling, simple past and past participle enrolled)

  1. (transitive) To enter (a name, etc.) in a register, roll or list
    • All the citizens capable of bearing arms enrolled themselves.1855–1858, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, →OCLC
  2. (transitive) To enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of.
    • They were eager to enroll new recruits.
  3. (intransitive, reflexive) To enlist oneself (in something) or become a member (of something).
    • Have you enrolled in classes yet for this term?
    1. (intransitive, reflexive) To register as a member of an educational institution.
    2. (US, intransitive, reflexive) To register for a class or course of study.
      • Rather than stopping her education, she enrolled in a GED program so she could go to college.2026 July 16, Nicholas Muhoro, “Inside the 2004 Brianna Maitland Case: One of Vermont’s Most Haunting Mysteries”, in Skip Boring, archived from the original on 21 Jul 2026
    3. (Australia, New Zealand, intransitive, reflexive) To register to vote.

See all 8 meanings of enroll

Forms of inroll

third-person singular presentinrolls
present participleinrolling
past participleinrolled
pastinrolled

Words formed from inroll

Questions about inroll

What is inroll the obsolete form of?
Inroll is the obsolete form of enroll.

Words near inroll in the dictionary

  1. inroader
  2. inroaders
  3. inroading
  4. inroads
  5. inrode
  6. inroll
  7. inrolled
  8. inrolling
  9. inrollment
  10. inrollments
  11. inrolls

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Adapted from Wiktionary: inroll (page history and authors); enroll (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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