An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
ENFORCE
enforce, implement, apply
(verb) ensure observance of laws and rules; “Apply the rules to everyone”
enforce, impose, constrain
(verb) compel to behave in a certain way; “Social relations impose courtesy”; “duty constrains one to act often contrary to one’s desires or inclinations”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
enforce (third-person singular simple present enforces, present participle enforcing, simple past and past participle enforced)
To keep up, impose or bring into effect something, not necessarily by force. [from 17thc.]
To give strength or force to; to affirm, to emphasize. [from 15thc.]
(obsolete, transitive) To strengthen (a castle, town etc.) with extra troops, fortifications etc. [14th-18thc.]
(obsolete, transitive) To intensify, make stronger, add force to. [14th-18thc.]
(obsolete, reflexive) To exert oneself, to try hard. [14th-17thc.]
(obsolete) To compel, oblige (someone or something); to force. [from 16thc.]
(obsolete) To make or gain by force; to force.
(obsolete) To put in motion or action by violence; to drive.
(obsolete) To give force to; to strengthen; to invigorate; to urge with energy.
(obsolete) To urge; to ply hard; to lay much stress upon.
(obsolete) To prove; to evince.
Anagrams
• forcenĂ©
Source: Wiktionary
En*force", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enforced; p. pr. & vb. n. Enforcing.] Etym: [OF. enforcier to strengthen, force, F. enforcir; pref. en- (L. in) + F. force. See Force.]
1. To put force upon; to force; to constrain; to compel; as, to enforce obedience to commands. Inward joy enforced my heart to smile. Shak.
2. To make or gain by force; to obtain by force; as, to enforce a passage. "Enforcing furious way." Spenser.
3. To put in motion or action by violence; to drive. As swift as stones Enforced from the old Assyrian slings. Shak.
4. To give force to; to strengthen; to invigorate; to urge with energy; as, to enforce arguments or requests. Enforcing sentiment of the thrust humanity. Burke.
5. To put in force; to cause to take effect; to give effect to; to execute with vigor; as, to enforce the laws.
6. To urge; to ply hard; to lay much stress upon. Enforce him with his envy to the people. Shak.
En*force, v. i.
1. To attempt by force. [Obs.]
2. To prove; to evince. [R.] Hooker.
3. To strengthen; to grow strong. [Obs.] Chaucer.
En*force", n.
Definition: Force; strength; power. [Obs.] A petty enterprise of small enforce. Milton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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