Synonyms: force, coerce, thrust, assert, push around
Conjugation
| Indicative mood |
|---|
| Present tense | Past tense |
|---|
| (I) impose | (I) imposed |
| (thou) imposest | (thou) imposedst |
| (he) imposes, imposeth | (he) imposed |
| (we) impose | (we) imposed |
| (you) impose | (you) imposed |
| (they) impose | (they) imposed |
| Subjunctive mood |
|---|
| Present tense | Past tense |
|---|
| (I) impose | (I) imposed |
| (thou) impose | (thou) imposed |
| (he) impose | (he) imposed |
| (we) impose | (we) imposed |
| (you) impose | (you) imposed |
| (they) impose | (they) imposed |
| Imperative mood |
|---|
| impose |
| Participles |
|---|
| Present participle | Past participle |
|---|
| imposing | imposed |
The British government will delay imposing full post‐Brexit import controls on goods from the European Union by a further three months, it said on Tuesday, pushing the start date back to January 2024.