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impel
To push, drive, or move forward; propel
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  1. To push, drive, or move forward; propel
  2. To force, compel, or urge; incite; constrain
  3. To urge to action through moral pressure; drive:
compel
(Archaic) To gather or drive together by force, as a flock
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  1. (Archaic) To gather or drive together by force, as a flock
  2. To force (a person) to do something; drive or constrain:
  3. To necessitate or require, as by force of circumstance; demand:
constrain
To force; compel; oblige
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  1. To force; compel; oblige
  2. To compel by physical, moral, or circumstantial force; oblige:
  3. To produce in a forced or inhibited manner:
pressure
To force or try to force, as by influence or persuasion:
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  1. To force or try to force, as by influence or persuasion:
  2. The force per unit area that one region of a gas, liquid, or solid exerts on another. Pressure is usually measured in Pascal units, atmospheres, or pounds per square inch. &diamf3; A substance is said to have negative pressure if some other substance exerts more force per unit area on it than vice versa. Its value is simply the negative of the pressure exerted by the other substance.
  3. To exert pressure, or compelling influence, on
restrict
To keep or confine within physical limits:
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  1. To keep or confine within physical limits:
  2. To keep within certain limits; put certain limitations on; confine
  3. To prevent or prohibit beyond a certain limit or by restriction:
constrain
To keep within certain limits; confine or limit:
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  1. To keep within certain limits; confine or limit:
  2. To produce in a forced or inhibited manner:
  3. To compel by physical, moral, or circumstantial force; oblige:
curb
To prevent (a person or group) from doing something or acting in a certain way.
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  1. To prevent (a person or group) from doing something or acting in a certain way.
  2. To lead (a dog being walked) to the curb or some other place where it may pass its waste matter
  3. To restrain; check; control
control
To exercise authority over; direct; command
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  1. To exercise authority over; direct; command
  2. To adjust to a requirement; regulate:
  3. To hold in restraint; check:
blackjack
To coerce by threats.
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  1. To coerce by threats.
  2. To hit or beat with a blackjack.
  3. To force (a person) to do something by threatening, as if with a blackjack
dragoon
(Historical) To use dragoons to harass or persecute (someone)
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  1. (Historical) To use dragoons to harass or persecute (someone)
  2. To force someone into doing something; to coerce.
  3. To subjugate or persecute by the imposition of troops.
force
To put in force
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  1. To put in force
  2. To produce with effort and against one's will:
  3. To break down or open by force:
hijack
To take control of (something) without permission or authorization and use it for one's own purposes:
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  1. To take control of (something) without permission or authorization and use it for one's own purposes:
  2. To cheat, swindle, etc. by or as by the use of force
  3. To steal (goods in transit, a truck and its contents, etc.) by force
strong-arm
(Often figuratively) To coerce, to muscle.
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  1. (Often figuratively) To coerce, to muscle.
  2. To use physical force or violence upon, esp. in robbing
  3. To rob by force.
compel
To force or constrain, as to do something
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  1. To force or constrain, as to do something
  2. To force (a person) to do something; drive or constrain:
  3. To get or bring about by force
constrain
To keep within certain limits; confine or limit:
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  1. To keep within certain limits; confine or limit:
  2. To force; compel; oblige
  3. To compel by physical, moral, or circumstantial force; oblige:
force
To get or take by force; wrest; extort
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  1. To get or take by force; wrest; extort
  2. (Obs.) To give or add force to
  3. (--- Bridge) To make a bid that requires (one's partner) to bid in response
make
To rise or accumulate:
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  1. To rise or accumulate:
  2. To achieve, produce, or attain:
  3. To draw up and execute in a suitable form:
obligate
To commit (money, for example) in order to fulfill an obligation.
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  1. To commit (money, for example) in order to fulfill an obligation.
  2. Capable of existing only in a particular environment or by assuming a particular role. An obligate aerobe, such as certain bacteria, can live only in the presence of oxygen. An obligate parasite cannot survive independently of its host.
  3. To cause to be grateful or indebted; oblige:
oblige
To bind someone by performing a service for that person.
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  1. To bind someone by performing a service for that person.
  2. To compel or require (someone) to do something, as by circumstance or legality:
  3. To make indebted or grateful:
pressure
To exert pressure, or compelling influence, on
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  1. To exert pressure, or compelling influence, on
  2. The force per unit area that one region of a gas, liquid, or solid exerts on another. Pressure is usually measured in Pascal units, atmospheres, or pounds per square inch. &diamf3; A substance is said to have negative pressure if some other substance exerts more force per unit area on it than vice versa. Its value is simply the negative of the pressure exerted by the other substance.
  3. To force or try to force, as by influence or persuasion:
Find another word for coerce. In this page you can discover 28 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for coerce, like: impel, compel, constrain, pressure, restrict, constrain, curb, control, force, threaten and dominate.

Sentence Examples

  • He even managed to coerce the children into doing the dishes.

  • When the king brought over a few Irish soldiers to coerce the English, Sarsfield came in command of them.

  • The refusal of the soldiers to coerce the Assembly showed that the monarchy could no longer rely on the army; and a few days later, when the lesser nobility and the lower ranks of the clergy had united with the third estate whose cause was their own, the king yielded, and on the 27th of June commanded both orders to join in the National Assembly, which was thereby recognized and the political revolution sanctioned.

  • Events, indeed, might readily have gone in favour of the moderates had Carnot acted with decision; but he relapsed into strange inactivity, while Barras and his military tool prepared to coerce the majority.

  • Early in his term he carried out a policy he had urged upon the government when minister to France and when vice-president, by dispatching naval forces to coerce Tripoli into a decent respect for the trade of his country - the first in Christendom to gain honourable immunity from tribute or piracy in the Mediterranean.

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