enjoin
verb (used with object)
to prescribe (a course of action) with authority or emphasis.
enjoined
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past participleof enjoin.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof enjoin.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
enjoinverb (used with object)to prescribe (a course of action) with authority or emphasis.
Example Sentences
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Discovery are “temporarily enjoined and restrained from closing or consummating the transaction or taking any steps, directly or indirectly, to integrate or consolidate their operations pursuant to the transaction.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
Confronted with the rules of fair play, the reader was enjoined to solve the case alongside the detective, which required seeing through the author’s sleights of hand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
When they stop individuals with no reasonable suspicion, they act in violation of federal law, and a court in California has enjoined this practice.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2025
“Nor has the Government adequately identified which particular provisions, if any, are sufficiently independent of the enjoined definitional provision and thus might be able to remain in effect,” reads the ruling.
From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2024
Why had he enjoined me, too, to secrecy?
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
