ENFORCED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does enforced mean? 

• ENFORCED (adjective)
  The adjective ENFORCED has 1 sense:

1. forced or compelled or put in force

  Familiarity information: ENFORCED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENFORCED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Forced or compelled or put in force

Synonyms:

enforced; implemented

Context example:

enforced obedience

Antonym:

unenforced (not enforced; not compelled especially by legal or police action)

 Context examples 

Then, addressing me, she said, with enforced calmness: My son is ill. Very ill.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

They enforced their live strength with the power of dead things.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The campaign had begun during Martin's enforced absence, and was already in full swing.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

And these people thought it a prodigious defect of policy among us, when I told them that our laws were enforced only by penalties, without any mention of reward.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Europe has enforced capping regulations and the World Bank has proposed a ‘user fee’ to be imposed on those buying antibiotics for farm animals.

(Eat less meat to cut drug resistance, SciDev.Net)

Even enforced events will benefit you.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Why did he so quietly submit to the concealment Mr. Rochester enforced?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I described, and enforced them earnestly.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Mrs. Jennings enforced the necessity.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

To be called into notice in such a manner, to hear that it was but the prelude to something so infinitely worse, to be told that she must do what was so impossible as to act; and then to have the charge of obstinacy and ingratitude follow it, enforced with such a hint at the dependence of her situation, had been too distressing at the time to make the remembrance when she was alone much less so, especially with the superadded dread of what the morrow might produce in continuation of the subject.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)