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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'
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present simple: I enjoin, you enjoin [...]
past simple: I enjoined, you enjoined [...]
past participle: enjoined
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Examples 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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