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    en·join
    [inˈjoin, enˈjoin]
    verb
    enjoin (verb) · enjoins (third person present) · enjoined (past tense) · enjoined (past participle) · enjoining (present participle)
    1. instruct or urge (someone) to do something:
      "the code enjoined members to trade fairly"
      • prescribe (an action or attitude) to be performed or adopted:
        "the charitable deeds enjoined on him by religion"
      • law
        (enjoin someone from)
        prohibit someone from performing (a particular action) by issuing an injunction:
        "he was enjoined from using the patent"
    Origin
    Middle English (formerly also as injoin): from Old French enjoindre, from Latin injungere ‘join, attach, impose’, from in- ‘in, towards’ + jungere ‘to join’.
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    verb
    1. instruct or urge (someone) to do something:
      urge
      encourage
      adjure
      admonish
      press
      prompt
      prod
      goad
      spur
      push
      pressure
      pressurize
      lean on
      instruct
      order
      command
      direct
      tell
      require
      call on
      demand
      charge
      warn
      entreat
      exhort
      implore
      beg
      beseech
      nag
      put the screws on
      twist someone's arm
      bid
      try to persuade
      egg on
      put pressure on
      use pressure on
      give the order to
      give the command to
      appeal to
      plead with
      put the heat on
      railroad into
      bulldoze into
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