impose

impose is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To lay on; to set or place; to put; to deposit. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To lay on; to set or place; to put; to deposit.
2. transitive verb. To lay as a charge, burden, tax, duty, obligation, command, penalty, etc.; to enjoin; to levy; to inflict; as, to impose a toll or tribute.
3. transitive verb. To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination.
4. transitive verb. To arrange in proper order on a table of stone or metal and lock up in a chase for printing; -- said of columns or pages of type, forms, etc.
5. intransitive verb. To practice trick or deception.
6. noun. A command; injunction.
7. verb. impose something unpleasant

   "The principal visited his rage on the students"

   Synonyms: inflict, visit

8. verb. impose and collect

   "levy a fine"

   Synonyms: levy

9. verb. compel to behave in a certain way

   "Social relations impose courtesy"

   Synonyms: enforce

Synonyms

inflict, visit, levy, enforce

Common word forms

imposed, imposer, imposes, imposing, imposement

Words from these letters

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