Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: impose
IPA transcription: [,ɪmp'oʊz]
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: enforce, impose
    Meaning: compel to behave in a certain way; "Social relations impose courtesy"
  • Synonyms: inflict, bring_down, visit, impose
    Meaning: impose something unpleasant; "The principal visited his rage on the students"
  • Synonyms: levy, impose
    Meaning: impose and collect; "levy a fine"
Usage examples
  • In no case wrong him, or impose upon him laws.
  • I understood him to mean that he had prospered in his attempt to impose on Lady Georgina.
  • Did they impose on each industry a proportional tax, so as to preserve a balance in the market?
  • Mr. Clerk, will you tell us, please, what is the very stiffest penalty we can impose for each of these offences?
  • (Discusses the circumstances under which society has the right to forbid divorce, or to impose limitations upon it.)
  • He therefore resolved to banish him and to impose such tasks upon him as must certainly bring about his destruction.
  • The object of respect is the law only, and that the law which we impose on ourselves and yet recognise as necessary in itself.
  • Such a strain of shallow artifice could not impose even upon Catherine. Its inconsistencies, contradictions, and falsehood struck her from the very first.
  • After what you told me about Miss Kircher, and knowing that you dislike her, I feel that it is not fair to her and to you that we should impose longer upon you.
  • In the Ottoman or Turkish empire, the sovereign, though in other respects absolute master of the lives and fortunes of his subjects, has no right to impose a new tax.