Coerce

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To force to act or think in a certain way by use of pressure, threats, or intimidation; compel.
  • v. To dominate, restrain, or control forcibly: coerced the strikers into compliance. See Synonyms at force.
  • v. To bring about by force or threat: efforts to coerce agreement.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.
  • v. to use force, threat, fraud, or intimidation in attempt to compel one to act against his will.
  • v. to force an attribute, normally of a data type, to take on the attribute of another data type.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.
  • v. To compel or constrain to any action.
  • v. To compel or enforce.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To restrain or constrain by force, as by the force of law or authority; especially, compel to compliance; constrain to obedience or submission in a vigorous or forcible manner.
  • To deprive of by force; restrain of.
  • To enforce; compel by forcible action: as, tocoerce obedience.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :
  • Verb Form
    coerced    coerces    coercing   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    obligate    compel    oblige   
    Form
    coercion    coercer    coercible   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    compel    bully    dragoon   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Perse    adverse    averse    biodiverse    burse    converse    curse    disburse    disperse    diverse