enjoin
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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- dashed outline: no word in this language
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
issue an injunction
Types & categories
- nix hypernym
Related & opposite
- enjoining derivation
Sense 2 verb
give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority
I said to him to go home
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- decree derivation
- order derivation
- injunction derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | enjoining |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | nix |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | decree |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | order |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | injunction |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | request |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | direct |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | instruct |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | command |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | send for |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | warn |