Enroll
[ɪn'rəʊl] or [ɪn'rol]
Definition
(verb.) register formally as a participant or member; 'The party recruited many new members'.
Checker: Roderick--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) To insert in a roil; to register or enter in a list or catalogue or on rolls of court; hence, to record; to insert in records; to leave in writing; as, to enroll men for service; to enroll a decree or a law; also, reflexively, to enlist.
(n.) To envelop; to inwrap; to involve.
Editor: Vito
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Enlist, register, chronicle.
Checked by Aron
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ENLIST]
Typist: Lucas
Examples
- His familiars were creeping and winged things, and they seemed to enroll him in their band. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- H e himself wished to be enrolled in the National Guard, a nd had to be told that a half-paralyzed man co uld not render military service. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- In addition to this, the new levies of troops that were being raised in the North-west went to Thomas as rapidly as enrolled and equipped. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Appius Claudius, one of the first of the censors to exercise it, enrolled freedmen in the tribes and called sons of freedmen to the Senate. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Gathered into the fold, With Thy people enrolled, With Thy people to live and to die! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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