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Definitions of 'enjoin'
1.
If you enjoin someone to do something, you order them to do it. If you enjoin an action or attitude, you order people to do it or have it.
[formal] [...]
2.
If a judge enjoins someone from doing something, they order them not to do it. If a judge enjoins an action, they order people not to do it.
[US, formal] [...]
Conjugations of 'enjoin'
present simple: I enjoin, you enjoin [...]
past simple: I enjoined, you enjoined [...]
past participle: enjoined
Synonyms of 'enjoin'
MoreExamples of 'enjoin' in a sentence
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True lovers would require only a mattress on the floor to cast their spells one upon
the other and enjoin the world to slip away.
Translations of 'enjoin'
English-French
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● transitive verb: (= urge) [obedience, tolerance] enjoindre; (US) (= forbid) [judge] interdire [...]
English-Spanish
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● transitive verb: (formal) [obedience, silence, discretion] imponer, exigir [...]
English-German
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● transitive verb: (form) to enjoin sb to silence/caution, to enjoin silence/caution on sb: jdn eindringlich zur Ruhe/zur Vorsicht mahnen [...]
English-Italian
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● transitive verb: to enjoin sb to do sth: ingiungere a qn di fare qc [...]
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