Noun enjoining has 1 sense
  1. injunction, enjoining, enjoinment, cease and desist order - (law) a judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party from doing or continuing to do a certain activity; "injunction were formerly obtained by writ but now by a judicial order"
    --1 is a kind of prohibition, ban, proscription
    --1 has particulars:
     mandatory injunction; permanent injunction, final injunction; temporary injunction, interlocutory injunction
    Derived form: verb enjoin1
,Verb enjoin has 2 senses
  1. enjoin - issue an injunction
    --1 is one way to
    forbid, prohibit, interdict, proscribe, veto, disallow
    Derived forms: noun injunction2, noun enjoinment1, noun enjoining1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s somebody PP
  2. order, tell, enjoin, say - give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority; "I said to him to go home"; "She ordered him to do the shopping"; "The mother told the child to get dressed"
    --2 is one way to request
    Derived form: noun injunction1
    Sample sentence:
    They enjoin him to write the letter
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