Choose and Impose

Choose

Choose verb - To decide to accept (someone or something) from a group of possibilities.

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Impose and choose are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Impose" instead a verb "Choose".

Nearby Words: choosy, choosing, choosey, chooser

Impose verb - To establish or apply as a charge or penalty.

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Choose and impose are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Choose" instead a verb "Impose".

Nearby Words: imposing, imposition, imposed, impost

He hopes that one day the Boy Scouts will choose to change their policy on their own, but doesn't want to impose his will on others in the meantime.

Source: Gay Aesop
Notable are Malakim, who choose their own restraining bolts, and Lilim, who impose restraining bolts on others.

Source: Tabletop Game / In Nomine
Long comes to realize that nothing truly means anything, and that reality is just like the inkblots that gave Rorschach his name: the only meaning in life is that which we choose to impose.

Source: Critical Psychoanalysis Failure

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