enforced
- 1Simple past and past participle of enforce.
The court enforced the contract after months of bitter dispute.
Curfews were strictly enforced throughout the state of emergency.
Note
One spelling does two jobs: the simple past (the court enforced the order) and the past participle, which follows have in perfect tenses and be in the passive (the rules are enforced). In current use it means imposing or upholding something, not necessarily by force. Older writing can mean something else: a town strengthened with troops, or a person compelled to act. Both of those meanings are now obsolete.
enforced is a form of enforce
enforce, verb: To keep up, impose, or bring a rule, law, or agreement into effect, not necessarily by physical force. Full entry
- Spelling
- enforce → enforced: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /t/.
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