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Enjoin

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WordDefinition
ordernoun(countable) A command.
tellverb(transitive, ditransitive) To convey by speech; to say.
sayverb(transitive) To pronounce.

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orderverb(transitive) To set in some sort of order.
tellverb(transitive, ditransitive) To convey by speech; to say.
sayverb(transitive) To pronounce.
banverb(transitive) To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation.
obligeverb(transitive, intransitive) To do (someone) a service or favour (hence, originally, creating an obligation).
instructverb(transitive) To tell (someone) what they must or should do.
sortverb(transitive) To separate items into different categories according to certain criteria that determine their sorts.
prohibitverb(transitive) To forbid, disallow, or proscribe officially; to make illegal or illicit.
injoinverbObsolete form of enjoin. [(transitive, chiefly literary) To lay upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to charge.]
joinverb(transitive) To connect or combine into one; to put together.
injunctnoun(law, transitive) To put an injunction against. (Used both of the party who applies for the injunction and of the judge who grants it.)
encurseverb(transitive, archaic) to place or bring a curse upon; curse
imposeverb(transitive) (figurative) To apply, enforce, or establish (something, often regarded as burdensome as a restriction or tax: see verb, sense 1.2.1) with authority.
bind oververb(law, transitive) To compel someone to do, or abstain from, a particular act.
bindnoun(countable) That which binds or ties.
holdnounA grasp or grip.
constrainverb(transitive) To keep within close bounds; to confine.
enjailverb(transitive) To put in jail.
enchainverb(transitive) To restrain with, or as if with, chains.
commitverb(transitive) To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.

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