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Noun enjoining has 1 sense

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

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
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