impose

impose has 9 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 6.

Definitions

• v. t.. To lay on; to set or place; to put; to deposit.
• v. t.. 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.
• v. t.. To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination.
• v. t.. 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.
• v. i.. To practice trick or deception.
• n.. A command; injunction.
• v.. impose something unpleasant; "The principal visited his rage on the students"
• v.. impose and collect; "levy a fine"
• v.. compel to behave in a certain way; "Social relations impose courtesy"