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"t": "to place, put"
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},
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"t": "away; off"
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"expansion": "*h₂epó (“away; off”)",
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"2": "*tḱey-",
"t": "to cultivate; to live; to settle"
},
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"t": "established; put upon, imposed"
},
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"etymology_text": "The verb is derived from Late Middle English imposen (“to place, set; to impose (a duty, etc.)”), borrowed from Middle French imposer, and Old French emposer, enposer (“to impose (a duty, tax, etc.)”) (modern French imposer), from im-, em- (variants of en- (prefix meaning ‘in, into’)) + poser (“to place, put”), modelled after:\n* Latin impōnere, the present active infinitive of impōnō (“to place or set (something) on; (figurative) to impose (a duty, tax, etc.)”), from im- (variant of in- (prefix meaning ‘on, upon’)) + pōnō (“to place, put; etc.”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂pó, *h₂epó (“away; off”) + *tḱey- (“to cultivate; to live; to settle”)); and\n* Latin impositus (“established; put upon, imposed”), the perfect passive participle of impōnō: see above.\nThe noun is derived from the verb.",
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"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
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},
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},
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"source": "conjugation",
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},
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"source": "conjugation",
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"source": "conjugation",
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"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
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"word": "imposition"
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"word": "reimposition"
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"categories": [
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"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Christianity",
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"parents": [
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"Religion",
"Culture",
"Society",
"All topics",
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],
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}
],
"glosses": [
"To physically lay or place (something) on another thing; to deposit, to put, to set.",
"To lay or place (one's hands) on someone as a blessing, during rites of confirmation, ordination, etc."
],
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"lay",
"lay#Verb"
],
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"place",
"place#Verb"
],
[
"thing",
"thing"
],
[
"deposit",
"deposit#Verb"
],
[
"put",
"put#Verb"
],
[
"set",
"set#Verb"
],
[
"Christianity",
"Christianity"
],
[
"hands",
"hand#Noun"
],
[
"blessing",
"blessing#Noun"
],
[
"rites",
"rite#Noun"
],
[
"confirmation",
"confirmation"
],
[
"ordination",
"ordination"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive)",
"(archaic) To physically lay or place (something) on another thing; to deposit, to put, to set.",
"(Christianity) To lay or place (one's hands) on someone as a blessing, during rites of confirmation, ordination, etc."
],
"tags": [
"archaic",
"transitive"
],
"topics": [
"Christianity"
],
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to lay or place (one’s hands) on someone as a blessing",
"word": "siunata"
}
]
},
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"name": "Printing",
"orig": "en:Printing",
"parents": [
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"Business",
"Economics",
"Society",
"Social sciences",
"All topics",
"Sciences",
"Fundamental"
],
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}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1877, Edward H[enry] Knight, “Imposing”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volume II (GAS–REA), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC, page 1172, column 1",
"text": "They [pages] are imposed as follows, the illustration showing how the pages appear in the form. […] 18, 24, 32, and 48mo may be imposed in a similar manner, or may be so imposed as to be cut before folding.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To physically lay or place (something) on another thing; to deposit, to put, to set.",
"To 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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"thing",
"thing"
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[
"deposit",
"deposit#Verb"
],
[
"put",
"put#Verb"
],
[
"set",
"set#Verb"
],
[
"printing",
"printing#Noun"
],
[
"columns",
"column#Noun"
],
[
"pages",
"page#Noun"
],
[
"type",
"type#Noun"
],
[
"plates",
"plate#Noun"
],
[
"arranged",
"arrange#Verb"
],
[
"proper",
"proper#Adjective"
],
[
"order",
"order#Noun"
],
[
"bed",
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],
[
"press",
"press#Noun"
],
[
"imposing stone",
"imposing stone"
],
[
"secure",
"secure#Verb"
],
[
"chase",
"chase#Noun"
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[
"preparation",
"preparation"
],
[
"printing",
"print#Verb"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive)",
"(archaic) To physically lay or place (something) on another thing; to deposit, to put, to set.",
"(printing) To 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."
],
"tags": [
"archaic",
"transitive"
],
"topics": [
"media",
"printing",
"publishing"
],
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "To lay (columns or pages of type, or printing plates) arranged in a proper order on the bed of a press, etc.",
"word": "kiinnittää"
}
]
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"examples": [
{
"text": "Congress imposed new tariffs.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "Sanctions were imposed on the country that had made an unprovoked attack on its neighbour.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To apply, enforce, or establish (something, often regarded as burdensome as a restriction or tax: see sense 1.2.2) with authority."
],
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[
"apply",
"apply#Verb"
],
[
"enforce",
"enforce"
],
[
"establish",
"establish"
],
[
"regarded",
"regard#Verb"
],
[
"burdensome",
"burdensome"
],
[
"restriction",
"restriction"
],
[
"tax",
"tax#Noun"
],
[
"authority",
"authority"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive)",
"(figurative)",
"To apply, enforce, or establish (something, often regarded as burdensome as a restriction or tax: see sense 1.2.2) with authority."
],
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"transitive"
],
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"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "partadrel",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "պարտադրել"
},
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"code": "hy",
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"roman": "vzin pʻatʻatʻel",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"tags": [
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"word": "վզին փաթաթել"
},
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"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "qoymaq"
},
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"_dis1": "1 2 68 2 2 2 11 1 2 2 3 2 2",
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "tətbiq etmək"
},
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"_dis1": "1 2 68 2 2 2 11 1 2 2 3 2 2",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "nalagam",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "налагам"
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{
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"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "imposar"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 68 2 2 2 11 1 2 2 3 2 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "強加"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 68 2 2 2 11 1 2 2 3 2 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "qiángjiā, qiǎngjiā",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "强加"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 68 2 2 2 11 1 2 2 3 2 2",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "opleggen"
},
{
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"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "imponi"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 68 2 2 2 11 1 2 2 3 2 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "langettaa"
},
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"_dis1": "1 2 68 2 2 2 11 1 2 2 3 2 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "määrätä"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 68 2 2 2 11 1 2 2 3 2 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "pakottaa"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 68 2 2 2 11 1 2 2 3 2 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "säätää"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 68 2 2 2 11 1 2 2 3 2 2",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "imposer"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 68 2 2 2 11 1 2 2 3 2 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "auferlegen"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 68 2 2 2 11 1 2 2 3 2 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "aufzwingen"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 68 2 2 2 11 1 2 2 3 2 2",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "epitíthēmi",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "ἐπιτίθημι"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 68 2 2 2 11 1 2 2 3 2 2",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "kiró"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 68 2 2 2 11 1 2 2 3 2 2",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "kiszab"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 68 2 2 2 11 1 2 2 3 2 2",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "kivet"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 68 2 2 2 11 1 2 2 3 2 2",
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "aplikar"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 68 2 2 2 11 1 2 2 3 2 2",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "cuir i bhfeidhm"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 68 2 2 2 11 1 2 2 3 2 2",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "imporre"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 68 2 2 2 11 1 2 2 3 2 2",
"alt": "きょうようする",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kyōyō-suru",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "強要する"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 68 2 2 2 11 1 2 2 3 2 2",
"alt": "しいる",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "shiiru",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "強いる"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 68 2 2 2 11 1 2 2 3 2 2",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "impōnō"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 68 2 2 2 11 1 2 2 3 2 2",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "infligo"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 68 2 2 2 11 1 2 2 3 2 2",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "uruhi"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 68 2 2 2 11 1 2 2 3 2 2",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "whakaeke"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 68 2 2 2 11 1 2 2 3 2 2",
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "impausar"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 68 2 2 2 11 1 2 2 3 2 2",
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"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "برنهادن"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 68 2 2 2 11 1 2 2 3 2 2",
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"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "impor"
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"_dis1": "1 2 68 2 2 2 11 1 2 2 3 2 2",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "impune"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 68 2 2 2 11 1 2 2 3 2 2",
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"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "налага́ть"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 68 2 2 2 11 1 2 2 3 2 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "oblagátʹ",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "облага́ть"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 68 2 2 2 11 1 2 2 3 2 2",
"code": "sh",
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"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"tags": [
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],
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{
"_dis1": "1 2 68 2 2 2 11 1 2 2 3 2 2",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
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"Roman"
],
"word": "nàmetnuti"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 68 2 2 2 11 1 2 2 3 2 2",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
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"word": "imponer"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 68 2 2 2 11 1 2 2 3 2 2",
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "vidhiñcu",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "విధించు"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 68 2 2 2 11 1 2 2 3 2 2",
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"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
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"imperfective"
],
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},
{
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"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
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"text": "Social relations impose courtesy.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1948 October 27 (date delivered), Harry S. Truman, “Address at Mechanics Hall in Boston”, in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President: January 1 to December 31, 1948, Washington, D.C.: Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration, General Services Administration; United States Government Printing Office, published 1964, →OCLC, page 884, column 1",
"text": "[W]e don't want any Communist government in the United States of America. And if the people of other countries don't want communism, we don't want to see it imposed upon them against their will.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1950 March, H. A. Vallance, “On Foot Across the Forth Bridge”, in The Railway Magazine, London: Tothill Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 149",
"text": "Detailed records are kept of the strains imposed on the bridge by the violent gales that frequently sweep the firth, and a self-recording wind gauge is fixed on the top of the tower.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1975 February 11, Marian Christy, quoting Suzy Chaffee, “Suzy Chaffee‘s choice on nude photos”, in Boston Evening Globe (Living section), final edition, volume 207, number 42, Boston, Mass.: The Globe Newspaper Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 25, column 5",
"text": "It's foolish for society to impose the restriction of one man to the married woman. I'm not advocating sexual promiscuity but I think it's possible for a woman to have many kinds of relationships with many men and that shouldn't affect the status of the marriage. The husband, in turn, should have the same freedoms.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2011 December 10, Arindam Rej, “Norwich 4 – 2 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 2023-03-12",
"text": "Norwich soon began imposing themselves on that patched-up defence with [Grant] Holt having their best early chance, only to see it blocked by [Danny] Simpson.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To 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)."
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[
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"duty"
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[
"encumbrance",
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[
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"penalty"
],
[
"inflict",
"inflict"
],
[
"repose",
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],
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"(transitive)",
"(figurative)",
"To 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)."
],
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"_dis1": "9 9 2 25 9 2 0 0 8 9 9 9 9",
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"word": "määrätä"
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"sense": "to place or put (something chiefly immaterial) on another thing or on someone; to place or put (on someone a chiefly immaterial thing) — see also inflict, repose",
"word": "pakottaa"
}
]
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"deceit"
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],
[
"obtrude",
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"(transitive)",
"(figurative)",
"To force or put (a thing) on someone or something by deceit or stealth; to foist, to obtrude."
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"Education",
"Buildings and structures",
"Society",
"Architecture",
"All topics",
"Applied sciences",
"Art",
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[
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"(figurative)",
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"_dis1": "1 3 2 2 3 49 2 2 2 2 3 7 23",
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"sense": "to subject (a student) to imposition",
"word": "rangaista"
}
]
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"authority",
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"(figurative)",
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"_dis1": "1 1 6 1 1 1 82 1 1 1 2 1 1",
"code": "fi",
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}
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"crime",
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[
"sin",
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[
"wrongdoing",
"wrongdoing#Noun"
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[
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[
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"transitive"
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"categories": [],
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[
"definitively",
"definitively"
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"(figurative)",
"(obsolete) To put (a conclusion or end) to something definitively."
],
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"obsolete",
"transitive"
]
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"Entry maintenance"
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"Chiefly followed by on or upon.",
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[
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"upon"
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"affect",
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[
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"authoritatively"
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[
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[
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],
[
"strongly",
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],
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"(intransitive) Chiefly followed by on or upon.",
"To affect authoritatively or forcefully; to influence strongly."
],
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"intransitive"
],
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"_dis1": "1 2 2 2 1 2 0 0 2 79 3 3 3",
"code": "fi",
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"word": "pakottaa"
}
]
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"text": "I don’t wish to impose upon you.",
"type": "example"
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{
"ref": "2022 January 12, Joseph Brennan, “Castles: Ruined and Redeemed by Rail”, in Rail, number 948, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 57",
"text": "In the same year as the Furness objection, sadder tidings befell St Pancras Priory at Lewes, in East Sussex. Despite it having the distinction of being the earliest Cluniac monastery in Great Britain, petitions to prevent the Brighton Lewes & Hastings Railway from imposing on its site with its Lewes line failed. The line was approved and, as if as an act of deliberate desecration and assertion of the railways' power, passed over the site of the high altar.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To 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."
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[
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[
"manner",
"manner#Noun"
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[
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[
"unwarranted",
"unwarranted"
],
[
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[
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[
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"burden#Noun"
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[
"inconvenience",
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"(intransitive) Chiefly followed by on or upon.",
"To 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."
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"intransitive"
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"_dis1": "4 4 5 7 5 11 2 2 4 4 43 6 3",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "natrapvam se",
"sense": "to be a burden or inconvenience",
"word": "натрапвам се"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 4 5 7 5 11 2 2 4 4 43 6 3",
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to be a burden or inconvenience",
"word": "olla rasituksena"
},
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"code": "fi",
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},
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"_dis1": "4 4 5 7 5 11 2 2 4 4 43 6 3",
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"_dis1": "4 4 5 7 5 11 2 2 4 4 43 6 3",
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"word": "auferlegen"
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{
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},
{
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},
{
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"sense": "to be a burden or inconvenience",
"word": "abusare"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 4 5 7 5 11 2 2 4 4 43 6 3",
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"code": "ja",
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"sense": "to be a burden or inconvenience",
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},
{
"_dis1": "4 4 5 7 5 11 2 2 4 4 43 6 3",
"code": "mi",
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"word": "māminga"
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{
"_dis1": "4 4 5 7 5 11 2 2 4 4 43 6 3",
"code": "pt",
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"word": "abusar"
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{
"_dis1": "4 4 5 7 5 11 2 2 4 4 43 6 3",
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{
"_dis1": "4 4 5 7 5 11 2 2 4 4 43 6 3",
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"word": "se impune"
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{
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"perfective"
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"English transitive verbs"
],
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{
"text": "Congress imposed new tariffs.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "Sanctions were imposed on the country that had made an unprovoked attack on its neighbour.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To apply, enforce, or establish (something, often regarded as burdensome as a restriction or tax: see sense 1.2.2) with authority."
],
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[
"apply",
"apply#Verb"
],
[
"enforce",
"enforce"
],
[
"establish",
"establish"
],
[
"regarded",
"regard#Verb"
],
[
"burdensome",
"burdensome"
],
[
"restriction",
"restriction"
],
[
"tax",
"tax#Noun"
],
[
"authority",
"authority"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive)",
"(figurative)",
"To apply, enforce, or establish (something, often regarded as burdensome as a restriction or tax: see sense 1.2.2) with authority."
],
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Social relations impose courtesy.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1948 October 27 (date delivered), Harry S. Truman, “Address at Mechanics Hall in Boston”, in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President: January 1 to December 31, 1948, Washington, D.C.: Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration, General Services Administration; United States Government Printing Office, published 1964, →OCLC, page 884, column 1",
"text": "[W]e don't want any Communist government in the United States of America. And if the people of other countries don't want communism, we don't want to see it imposed upon them against their will.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1950 March, H. A. Vallance, “On Foot Across the Forth Bridge”, in The Railway Magazine, London: Tothill Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 149",
"text": "Detailed records are kept of the strains imposed on the bridge by the violent gales that frequently sweep the firth, and a self-recording wind gauge is fixed on the top of the tower.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1975 February 11, Marian Christy, quoting Suzy Chaffee, “Suzy Chaffee‘s choice on nude photos”, in Boston Evening Globe (Living section), final edition, volume 207, number 42, Boston, Mass.: The Globe Newspaper Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 25, column 5",
"text": "It's foolish for society to impose the restriction of one man to the married woman. I'm not advocating sexual promiscuity but I think it's possible for a woman to have many kinds of relationships with many men and that shouldn't affect the status of the marriage. The husband, in turn, should have the same freedoms.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2011 December 10, Arindam Rej, “Norwich 4 – 2 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 2023-03-12",
"text": "Norwich soon began imposing themselves on that patched-up defence with [Grant] Holt having their best early chance, only to see it blocked by [Danny] Simpson.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To 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)."
],
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[
"immaterial",
"immaterial#Adjective"
],
[
"duty",
"duty"
],
[
"encumbrance",
"encumbrance"
],
[
"penalty",
"penalty"
],
[
"inflict",
"inflict"
],
[
"repose",
"repose#Verb"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive)",
"(figurative)",
"To 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)."
],
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"en:place a burden"
],
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To force or put (a thing) on someone or something by deceit or stealth; to foist, to obtrude."
],
"links": [
[
"force",
"force#Verb"
],
[
"deceit",
"deceit"
],
[
"stealth",
"stealth#Noun"
],
[
"foist",
"foist#Verb"
],
[
"obtrude",
"obtrude"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive)",
"(figurative)",
"To force or put (a thing) on someone or something by deceit or stealth; to foist, to obtrude."
],
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"British English",
"English student slang",
"English transitive verbs",
"en:Universities"
],
"glosses": [
"To subject (a student) to imposition (“a task inflicted as punishment”)."
],
"links": [
[
"school",
"school#Noun"
],
[
"university",
"university"
],
[
"slang",
"slang"
],
[
"subject",
"subject#Verb"
],
[
"student",
"student"
],
[
"imposition",
"imposition#English"
],
[
"task",
"task#Noun"
]
],
"qualifier": "school or university slang",
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive)",
"(figurative)",
"(UK, school or university slang) To subject (a student) to imposition (“a task inflicted as punishment”)."
],
"tags": [
"UK",
"figuratively",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with archaic senses",
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To appoint (someone) to be in authority or command over other people."
],
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[
"appoint",
"appoint"
],
[
"authority",
"authority"
],
[
"command",
"command#Noun"
],
[
"people",
"person#Noun"
]
],
"qualifier": "archaic or obsolete",
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive)",
"(figurative)",
"(archaic or obsolete) To appoint (someone) to be in authority or command over other people."
],
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To accuse someone of (a crime, or a sin or other wrongdoing); to charge, to impute."
],
"links": [
[
"accuse",
"accuse#Verb"
],
[
"crime",
"crime#Noun"
],
[
"sin",
"sin#Noun"
],
[
"wrongdoing",
"wrongdoing#Noun"
],
[
"charge",
"charge#Verb"
],
[
"impute",
"impute"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive)",
"(figurative)",
"(obsolete) To accuse someone of (a crime, or a sin or other wrongdoing); to charge, to impute."
],
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"obsolete",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To put (a conclusion or end) to something definitively."
],
"links": [
[
"conclusion",
"conclusion"
],
[
"end",
"end#Noun"
],
[
"definitively",
"definitively"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive)",
"(figurative)",
"(obsolete) To put (a conclusion or end) to something definitively."
],
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"obsolete",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"Chiefly followed by on or upon.",
"To affect authoritatively or forcefully; to influence strongly."
],
"links": [
[
"on",
"on#Preposition"
],
[
"upon",
"upon"
],
[
"affect",
"affect#Verb"
],
[
"authoritatively",
"authoritatively"
],
[
"forcefully",
"forcefully"
],
[
"influence",
"influence#Verb"
],
[
"strongly",
"strongly"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) Chiefly followed by on or upon.",
"To affect authoritatively or forcefully; to influence strongly."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "I don’t wish to impose upon you.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2022 January 12, Joseph Brennan, “Castles: Ruined and Redeemed by Rail”, in Rail, number 948, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 57",
"text": "In the same year as the Furness objection, sadder tidings befell St Pancras Priory at Lewes, in East Sussex. Despite it having the distinction of being the earliest Cluniac monastery in Great Britain, petitions to prevent the Brighton Lewes & Hastings Railway from imposing on its site with its Lewes line failed. The line was approved and, as if as an act of deliberate desecration and assertion of the railways' power, passed over the site of the high altar.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Chiefly followed by on or upon.",
"To 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."
],
"links": [
[
"on",
"on#Preposition"
],
[
"upon",
"upon"
],
[
"encroach",
"encroach#Verb"
],
[
"intrude",
"intrude"
],
[
"manner",
"manner#Noun"
],
[
"unfair",
"unfair#Adjective"
],
[
"unwarranted",
"unwarranted"
],
[
"presume",
"presume"
],
[
"take advantage of",
"take advantage of"
],
[
"burden",
"burden#Noun"
],
[
"inconvenience",
"inconvenience#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) Chiefly followed by on or upon.",
"To 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."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"Chiefly followed by on or upon.",
"To practise deceit or stealth; to cheat, to deceive, to trick."
],
"links": [
[
"on",
"on#Preposition"
],
[
"upon",
"upon"
],
[
"practise",
"practise#Verb"
],
[
"deceit",
"deceit"
],
[
"stealth",
"stealth#Noun"
],
[
"cheat",
"cheat#Verb"
],
[
"deceive",
"deceive"
],
[
"trick",
"trick#Verb"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) Chiefly followed by on or upon.",
"To practise deceit or stealth; to cheat, to deceive, to trick."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with obsolete senses"
],
"glosses": [
"Chiefly followed by on or upon.",
"To subject to a levy, tax, etc."
],
"links": [
[
"on",
"on#Preposition"
],
[
"upon",
"upon"
],
[
"levy",
"levy#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) Chiefly followed by on or upon.",
"(obsolete) To subject to a levy, tax, etc."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ɪmˈpəʊz/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ɪmˈpoʊz/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ɪmˈpəʉz/",
"tags": [
"General-Australian"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-əʊz"
},
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"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to lay or place (one’s hands) on someone as a blessing",
"word": "siunata"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "To lay (columns or pages of type, or printing plates) arranged in a proper order on the bed of a press, etc.",
"word": "kiinnittää"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "partadrel",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "պարտադրել"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "vzin pʻatʻatʻel",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"tags": [
"informal"
],
"word": "վզին փաթաթել"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "qoymaq"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "tətbiq etmək"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "nalagam",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "налагам"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "imposar"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "強加"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "qiángjiā, qiǎngjiā",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "强加"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "opleggen"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "imponi"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "langettaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "määrätä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "pakottaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "säätää"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "imposer"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "auferlegen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "aufzwingen"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "epitíthēmi",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "ἐπιτίθημι"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "kiró"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "kiszab"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "kivet"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "aplikar"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "cuir i bhfeidhm"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "imporre"
},
{
"alt": "きょうようする",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kyōyō-suru",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "強要する"
},
{
"alt": "しいる",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "shiiru",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "強いる"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "impōnō"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "infligo"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "uruhi"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "whakaeke"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "impausar"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "barnehâdan",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "برنهادن"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "impor"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "impune"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nalagátʹ",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "налага́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "oblagátʹ",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "облага́ть"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "на̀метнути"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"tags": [
"Roman"
],
"word": "nàmetnuti"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "imponer"
},
{
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "vidhiñcu",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"word": "విధించు"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "navʺjázuvaty",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "нав'я́зувати"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "navʺjazáty",
"sense": "to apply, enforce, or establish (something) with authority",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "нав'яза́ти"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to place or put (something chiefly immaterial) on another thing or on someone; to place or put (on someone a chiefly immaterial thing) — see also inflict, repose",
"word": "määrätä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to place or put (something chiefly immaterial) on another thing or on someone; to place or put (on someone a chiefly immaterial thing) — see also inflict, repose",
"word": "pakottaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to subject (a student) to imposition",
"word": "rangaista"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to appoint (someone) to be in authority or command over other people",
"word": "määrätä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to affect authoritatively or forcefully; to influence strongly",
"word": "pakottaa"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "natrapvam se",
"sense": "to be a burden or inconvenience",
"word": "натрапвам се"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to be a burden or inconvenience",
"word": "olla rasituksena"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to be a burden or inconvenience",
"word": "rasittaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to be a burden or inconvenience",
"word": "vaivata"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to be a burden or inconvenience",
"word": "s’imposer"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to be a burden or inconvenience",
"word": "auferlegen"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to be a burden or inconvenience",
"word": "alkalmatlankodik"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to be a burden or inconvenience",
"word": "terhére van"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to be a burden or inconvenience",
"word": "visszaél a jóságával/kedvességével"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to be a burden or inconvenience",
"word": "abusare"
},
{
"alt": "かす",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kasu",
"sense": "to be a burden or inconvenience",
"word": "課す"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to be a burden or inconvenience",
"word": "māminga"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to be a burden or inconvenience",
"word": "abusar"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to be a burden or inconvenience",
"word": "dicta"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to be a burden or inconvenience",
"word": "se impune"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "navjazyvátʹsja",
"sense": "to be a burden or inconvenience",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "навязыва́ться"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "navjazátʹsja",
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