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All conscribe synonyms

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verb conscribe

  • press — to force into service, especially naval or military service; impress.
  • choose — If you choose someone or something from several people or things that are available, you decide which person or thing you want to have.
  • recruit — a newly enlisted or drafted member of the armed forces.
  • call up — If you call someone up, you telephone them.
  • appoint — If you appoint someone to a job or official position, you formally choose them for it.
  • hire — to engage the services of (a person or persons) for wages or other payment: to hire a clerk.
  • join — to bring in contact, connect, or bring or put together: to join hands; to join pages with a staple.
  • gather — to bring together into one group, collection, or place: to gather firewood; to gather the troops.
  • serve — to act as a servant.
  • admit — If you admit that something bad, unpleasant, or embarrassing is true, you agree, often unwillingly, that it is true.
  • mobilize — to assemble or marshal (armed forces, military reserves, or civilian persons of military age) into readiness for active service.
  • attract — If something attracts people or animals, it has features that cause them to come to it.
  • assign — If you assign a piece of work to someone, you give them the work to do.
  • volunteer — a person who voluntarily offers himself or herself for a service or undertaking.
  • muster — to assemble (troops, a ship's crew, etc.), as for battle, display, inspection, orders, or discharge.
  • impress — to press or force into public service, as sailors.
  • indite — to compose or write, as a poem.
  • induct — to install in an office, benefice, position, etc., especially with formal ceremonies: The committee inducted her as president.
  • conscript — A conscript is a person who has been made to join the armed forces of a country.
  • dragoon — (especially formerly) a European cavalryman of a heavily armed troop.
  • incorporate — to form into a legal corporation.
  • levy — an imposing or collecting, as of a tax, by authority or force.
  • secure — free from or not exposed to danger or harm; safe.
  • get — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
  • oblige — to require or constrain, as by law, command, conscience, or force of necessity.
  • register — a list or record of such acts, events, etc.
  • list — Friedrich [free-drik] /ˈfri drɪk/ (Show IPA), 1789–1846, U.S. political economist and journalist, born in Germany.
  • procure — to obtain or get by care, effort, or the use of special means: to procure evidence.
  • inscribe — to address or dedicate (a book, photograph, etc.) informally to a person, especially by writing a brief personal note in or on it.
  • record — to cause to be set down or registered: to record one's vote.
  • draft — a drawing, sketch, or design.
  • interest — the feeling of a person whose attention, concern, or curiosity is particularly engaged by something: She has a great interest in the poetry of Donne.
  • place — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
  • hitch — to fasten or tie, especially temporarily, by means of a hook, rope, strap, etc.; tether: Steve hitched the horse to one of the posts.
  • obtain — to come into possession of; get, acquire, or procure, as through an effort or by a request: to obtain permission; to obtain a better income.
  • initiate — to begin, set going, or originate: to initiate major social reforms.
  • reserve — to keep back or save for future use, disposal, treatment, etc.
  • sign on — a token; indication.
  • sign up — a token; indication.
  • mobilise — to assemble or marshal (armed forces, military reserves, or civilian persons of military age) into readiness for active service.
  • draught — a drawing, sketch, or design.
  • call to arms — a command to report for active military duty.
  • take on — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
  • join up — to bring in contact, connect, or bring or put together: to join hands; to join pages with a staple.
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