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IMPOSE
✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓
SOWPODS ✓
ENABLE1 ✓
Classic
3
pts
Big
3
pts
Super Big
3
pts
IMPOSE is a valid 6-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 3 in Classic, 3 in Big, and 3 in Super Big Boggle.
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verb
- archaictransitiveTo physically lay or place (something) on another thing; to deposit, to put, to set.
- archaictransitiveTo lay or place (one's hands) on someone as a blessing, during rites of confirmation, ordination, etc.
- archaictransitiveTo lay (columns or pages of type, or printing plates) arranged in a proper order on the bed of a press or an imposing stone and secure them in a chase in preparation for printing.
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figurativelytransitiveTo apply, enforce, or establish (something, often regarded as burdensome as a restriction or tax: see verb sense 1.2.2) with authority.
- Congress imposed new tariffs.
- Sanctions were imposed on the country that had made an unprovoked attack on its neighbour.
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figurativelytransitiveTo place or put (something chiefly immaterial, especially something regarded as burdensome as a duty, an encumbrance, a penalty, etc.) on another thing or on someone; to inflict, to repose; also, to place or put (on someone a chiefly immaterial thing, especially something regarded as burdensome).
- Social relations impose courtesy.
- figurativelytransitiveTo force or put (a thing) on someone or something by deceit or stealth; to foist, to obtrude.
- UKfigurativelytransitiveTo subject (a student) to imposition (“a task inflicted as punishment”).
- archaicfigurativelyobsoletetransitiveTo appoint (someone) to be in authority or command over other people.
- figurativelyobsoletetransitiveTo accuse someone of (a crime, or a sin or other wrongdoing); to charge, to impute.
- figurativelyobsoletetransitiveTo put (a conclusion or end) to something definitively.
- intransitiveTo affect authoritatively or forcefully; to influence strongly.
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intransitiveTo encroach or intrude, especially in a manner regarded as unfair or unwarranted; to presume, to take advantage of; also, to be a burden or inconvenience.
- I don’t wish to impose upon you.
- intransitiveTo practise deceit or stealth; to cheat, to deceive, to trick.
- intransitiveobsoleteTo subject to an impost, levy, tax, etc.
noun
- obsoleteAn act of placing or putting on something chiefly immaterial, especially something regarded as burdensome as a duty, a task, etc.; an imposition.