imposing
/ɪmˈpəʊzɪŋ/ · verb
Meaning
- To establish or apply by authority.
- To be an inconvenience (on or upon)
- To enforce: compel to behave in a certain way
- To practice a trick or deception (on or upon).
- To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination.
- 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.
- Magnificent and impressive because of appearance, size, stateliness or dignity.
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