Word Meanings - ENLIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To enter on a list; to enroll; to register. 2. To engage for military or naval service, the name being entered on a list or register; as, to enlist men. 3. To secure the support and aid of; to employ in advancing interest; as, to enlist persons

Additional info about word: ENLIST

1. To enter on a list; to enroll; to register. 2. To engage for military or naval service, the name being entered on a list or register; as, to enlist men. 3. To secure the support and aid of; to employ in advancing interest; as, to enlist persons in the cause of truth, or in a charitable enterprise.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ENLIST)

• Conciliate
• Win
• gain
• enlist
• pacify
• make friendly
• reconcile
• propitiate
• Embody
• Express
• methodize
• systematize
• codify
• incorporate
• aggregate
• integrate
• compact
• introduce
• combine
• Engage
• Promise
• undertake
• vouch
• employ
• occupy
• hire
• attract
• stipulate
• pledge
• agree
• buy
• adopt
• involve
• Inscroll
• Enlist
• register
• enroll
• pattern
• flourish
• record
• calendar

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ENLIST)

• Redeem
• Obliviate
• silentiate
• suppress

Related words: (words related to ENLIST)

• SYSTEMATIZE
  To reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize; as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas. Diseases were healed, and buildings erected, before medicine
• INVOLVEDNESS
  The state of being involved.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• REDEEM
  Hence, to rescue and deliver from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. Gal. iii. 13. 5. To make good by performing fully; to fulfill; as, to redeem
• ATTRACTABILITY
  The quality or fact of being attractable. Sir W. Jones.
• PLEDGERY
  A pledging; suretyship.
• COMPACT
  1. Joined or held together; leagued; confederated. "Compact with her that's gone." Shak. A pipe of seven reeds, compact with wax together. Peacham. 2. Composed or made; -- with of. A wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapor. Milton. 3. Closely
• COMPACTIBLE
  That may be compacted.
• PLEDGE
  The transfer of possession of personal property from a debtor to a creditor as security for a debt or engagement; also, the contract created between the debtor and creditor by a thing being so delivered or deposited, forming a species of bailment;
• ATTRACTILE
  Having power to attract.
• REGISTERING
  Recording; -- applied to instruments; having an apparatus which registers; as, a registering thermometer. See Recording.
• VOUCHMENT
  A solemn assertion.
• PATTERN
  A full-sized model around which a mold of sand is made, to receive the melted metal. It is usually made of wood and in several parts, so as to be removed from the mold without injuring it. Pattern box, chain, or cylinder , devices, in a loom, for
• ADOPT
  1. To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc. ; esp. to take voluntarily to be in the place of, or as, one's own child. 2. To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally; to select and take or approve;
• ENROLLER
  One who enrolls or registers.
• ATTRACTIVE
  1. Having the power or quality of attracting or drawing; as, the attractive force of bodies. Sir I. Newton. 2. Attracting or drawing by moral influence or pleasurable emotion; alluring; inviting; pleasing. "Attractive graces." Milton. "Attractive
• VOUCHSAFEMENT
  The act of vouchsafing, or that which is vouchsafed; a gift or grant in condescension. Glanvill.
• COMBINE
  1. To unite or join; to link closely together; to bring into harmonious union; to cause or unite so as to form a homogeneous, as by chemical union. So fitly them in pairs thou hast combined. Milton. Friendship is the which really combines mankind.
• FRIENDLY
  1. Having the temper and disposition of a friend; disposed to promote the good of another; kind; favorable. 2. Appropriate to, or implying, friendship; befitting friends; amicable. In friendly relations with his moderate opponents. Macaulay. 3.
• COMPACTEDLY
  In a compact manner.
• UNEMPLOYMENT
  Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.
• COMPROMISE
  promise to abide by the decision of an arbiter, fr. compromittere to 1. A mutual agreement to refer matters in dispute to the decision of arbitrators. Burrill. 2. A settlement by arbitration or by mutual consent reached by concession on both
• DISAGREEABLENESS
  The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
• REENGAGEMENT
  A renewed or repeated engagement.
• UNPROMISE
  To revoke or annul, as a promise. Chapman.
• REENLISTMENT
  A renewed enlistment.
• AVOUCHMENT
  The act of avouching; positive declaration. Milton.
• EXSTIPULATE
  Having no stipules. Martyn.
• INTERPLEDGE
  To pledge mutually.
• CAPACIFY
  To quality. The benefice he is capacified and designed for. Barrow.
• UNREDEEMED
  Not redeemed.
• SHAGREEN; SHAGREENED
  Covered with rough scales or points like those on shagreen. (more info) 1. Made or covered with the leather called shagreen. "A shagreen case of lancets." T. Hook.
• FOREVOUCHED
  Formerly vouched or avowed; affirmed in advance. Shak.
• SAFE-PLEDGE
  A surety for the appearance of a person at a given time. Bracton.
• AVOUCHABLE
  Capable of being avouched.
• INSTIPULATE
  See EXSTIPULATE