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enroll

verb/ɛnˈɹoʊl/

What It Means

To enter (a name, etc.) in a register, roll or list

To enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of.

To enlist oneself (in something) or become a member (of something).

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Enroll in Context

“Many trilobites (e.g.37), including Ampyx priscus (Supplementary Fig. 11) had the capacity to enroll as do modern terrestrial isopods when threatened.”

— 2019 October 17, Jean Vannier et al., “Collective behaviour in 480-million-year-old trilobite arthropods from Morocco”, in Scientific Reports

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From Middle English enrollen, from Anglo-Norman enroller; by surface analysis, en- + roll.

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