Dictionary Entry
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
- 1transitive verb
To lay on; to set or place; to put; to deposit.
- 2transitive 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.
- 3transitive verb
To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination.
- 4transitive 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.
- 5intransitive verb
To practice trick or deception.
- 6noun
A command; injunction.
- 7verb
impose something unpleasant
"The principal visited his rage on the students"
- 8verb
impose and collect
"levy a fine"
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- 9verb
compel to behave in a certain way
"Social relations impose courtesy"
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