impose
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
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
compel to behave in a certain way
Social relations impose courtesy
Types & categories
- oblige hypernym
Related & opposite
- enforcement derivation
Sense 2 verb
impose something unpleasant
The principal visited his rage on the students
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- infliction derivation
- infliction derivation
- imposition derivation
- visitation derivation
Sense 3 verb
impose and collect
levy a fine
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- infliction derivation
- levy derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | enforcement |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | oblige |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | infliction |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | infliction |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | imposition |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | visitation |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | communicate |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | dictate |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | obtrude |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | clamp |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | give |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | foist |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | infliction |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | levy |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | bill |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | toll |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | tithe |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | reimpose |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | lay |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | mulct |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | tax |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | distrain |