Definitions for impose

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impose im·pose

Spelling: [im-pohz]

IPA: /ɪmˈpoʊz/

Impose is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 123 anagrams from letters in impose (eimops).

Definitions for impose

Verb phrases

1. impose on/upon, to thrust oneself offensively upon others; intrude. to take unfair advantage of; misuse (influence, friendship, etc.). to defraud; cheat; deceive:

verb (used with object)

1. to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.:
2. to put or set by or as if by authority:
3. to obtrude or thrust (oneself, one's company, etc.) upon others.
4. to pass or palm off fraudulently or deceptively:
5. Printing. to lay (type pages, plates, etc.) in proper order on an imposing stone or the like and secure in a chase for printing.
6. to lay on or inflict, as a penalty.
7. Archaic. to put or place on something, or in a particular place.
8. Obsolete. to lay on (the hands) ceremonially, as in confirmation or ordination.

verb (used without object)

1. to make an impression on the mind; impose one's or its authority or influence.
2. to obtrude oneself or one's requirements, as upon others:
3. to presume, as upon patience or good nature.

Origin of impose

1475-85; late Middle English Middle French imposer, equivalent to im- im-¹ + poser to pose¹; see also Examples for impose

The United States has tools to impose costs on the North Koreans.

In spite of all these changes, the force of the state continued to impose the black abaya in public.

And surely, said he, this is not a very severe order which we impose upon them.

Expectations, reasonable or unrealistic, remain so even if we impose them on ourselves.

It in no way wishes to impose work on women nor to make them unaccustomed to it.

The United Nations was prompted to impose a ban on selling mainframe computers or laptops to North Korea.

We will not use our friendship to impose on their sovereignty, for our own sovereignty is not for sale.

He wanted to impose his will on me, and I would not submit to it.

We can, due to the critical issues at stake, also go one more step and impose an embargo.

America will not impose our own style of government on the unwilling.