impose : Idioms & Phrases


self-imposed

  • adjective satellite voluntarily assumed or endured
    • self-imposed exile
WordNet
Self`-im*posed" adjective
Definitions
  1. Voluntarily taken on one's self; as, self-imposed tasks.
Webster 1913

To impose onupon

  • to pass or put a trick on; to delude. "He imposes on himself, and mistakes words for things."
Webster 1913