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imposing

/ɪmˈpəʊzɪŋ/ · verb

Meaning

  1. To establish or apply by authority.
  2. To be an inconvenience (on or upon)
  3. To enforce: compel to behave in a certain way
  4. To practice a trick or deception (on or upon).
  5. To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination.
  6. To arrange in proper order on a table of stone or metal and lock up in a chase for printing; said of columns or pages of type, forms, etc.
  7. Magnificent and impressive because of appearance, size, stateliness or dignity.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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