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coerce::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | force, hale, pressure, squeeze |
| Type of | compel, obligate, oblige |
| Has types | railroad, sandbag, squeeze for, steamroll, steamroller, terrorise, terrorize, turn up the heat, turn up the pressure, bludgeon, bring oneself, dragoon, drive |
| Derivation | coercion, coercive |
Examples of coerce
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Coerce that neighbor down the street who wrote her kids college entrance essays.
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Avoid trying to coerce others to your point of view in philosophical discussions.
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Leaders can't coerce their people and expect to be sustainable in today's work.
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Each time, the detectives tried to coerce a confession out of Grayes, Aed said.
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Edward tries to coerce her into having an abortion in order to save her own life.
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To coerce them into a mainstream culture which is wholly more destructive anyway?
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They are using extortion and torture to coerce the support of innocent villagers.
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Instead the three imperial rivals will woo and coerce, relying on distinct styles.
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Part of their methodology is to gather incriminating data to coerce teenagers.
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- To cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city"; "He squeezed her for information"
- (coercion) the act of compelling by force of authority
- (coercion) compulsion: using force to cause something to occur; "though pressed into rugby under compulsion I began to enjoy the game"; "they didn't have to use coercion"
- (coercive) serving or intended to coerce; "authority is directional instead of coercive"
- (Coercion (band)) Coercion is a Swedish death metal band from Stockholm. It was formed by Kenneth Nyman, Rickard Thulin and Pelle Liljenberg in 1992.
- (Coercion (linguistics)) In linguistics, coercion is when the grammatical context causes the language-user to reinterpret all or parts of the semantic and/or formal features of a lexeme that appears in it.
- (Coercive) Coercion is the practice of forcing another party to behave in an involuntary manner (whether through action or inaction) by use of threats, intimidation, trickery, or some other form of pressure or force. ...
- To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb; to use force, threat, fraud, or intimidation in attempt to compel one to act against his will; to force an attribute, normally of a data type, to take on the attribute of another data type
- (coercion) Actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of coercing; Use of physical or moral force to compel a person to do something, or to abstain from doing something, thereby depriving that person of the exercise of free will; A specific ...
