enforce synonyms

enforce

v.

  1. To add strength

    reinforce, fortify, support; see strengthen.

  2. To require compliance

    urge, compel, impose, exert, drive, demand, carry out vigorously, put in force, implement, invoke, have executed, expect, dictate, exact, require, pressure, constrain, execute, administer, coerce, oblige, insist upon, emphasize, necessitate, press, impel, make, sanction, wrest, extort, force, stress, spur, hound*, dragoon*, whip*, lash*, put the screws on*, crack down*, clamp down*, get tough*.

    Antonyms abandon*, neglect*, waive.

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