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Adact :: Adact (v. t.) To compel; to drive.

Obligate :: Obligate (v. t.) To bind or firmly hold to an act; to compel; to constrain; to bind to any act of duty or courtesy by a formal pledge.

Necessitate :: Necessitate (v. t.) To reduce to the necessity of; to force; to compel.

Penitentiary :: Penitentiary (n.) A house of correction, in which offenders are confined for punishment, discipline, and reformation, and in which they are generally compelled to labor..

Compel :: Compel (v. t.) To gather or unite in a crowd or company.

Compel :: Compel (v. t.) To call forth; to summon.

Coact :: Coact (v. t.) To force; to compel; to drive.

Compel :: Compel (v. t.) To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate.

Efforce :: Efforce (v. t.) To force; to constrain; to compel to yield.

Rusticate :: Rusticate (v. t.) To require or compel to reside in the country; to banish or send away temporarily; to impose rustication on.

Compel :: Compel (v. t.) To take by force or violence; to seize; to exact; to extort.

Perforce :: Perforce (v. t.) To force; to compel.

Compel :: Compel (v. i.) To make one yield or submit.

Compelled :: Compelled (imp. & p. p.) of Compe.

Imperious :: Imperious (a.) Imperative; urgent; compelling.

Coerce :: Coerce (v. t.) To compel or constrain to any action; as, to coerce a man to vote for a certain candidate..

Pulsive :: Pulsive (a.) Tending to compel; compulsory.

Exact :: Exact (a.) To demand or require authoritatively or peremptorily, as a right; to enforce the payment of, or a yielding of; to compel to yield or to furnish; hence, to wrest, as a fee or reward when none is due; -- followed by from or of before the one subjected to exaction; as, to exact tribute, fees, obedience, etc., from or of some one..

Disgorge :: Disgorge (v. t.) To give up unwillingly as what one has wrongfully seized and appropriated; to make restitution of; to surrender; as, he was compelled to disgorge his ill-gotten gains..

Corner :: Corner (n.) The state of things produced by a combination of persons, who buy up the whole or the available part of any stock or species of property, which compels those who need such stock or property to buy of them at their own price; as, a corner in a railway stock..

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