Definition of compel

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

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Adact :: Adact (v. t.) To compel; to drive.
Violence :: Violence (v. t.) To assault; to injure; also, to bring by violence; to compel..
Bayonet :: Bayonet (v. t.) To compel or drive by the bayonet.
Silence :: Silence (v. t.) To compel to silence; to cause to be still; to still; to hush.
Efforce :: Efforce (v. t.) To force; to constrain; to compel to yield.
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..
Necessitate :: Necessitate (v. t.) To reduce to the necessity of; to force; to compel.
Quarantine :: Quarantine (v. t.) To compel to remain at a distance, or in a given place, without intercourse, when suspected of having contagious disease; to put under, or in, quarantine..
Giantship :: Giantship (n.) The state, personality, or character, of a giant; -- a compellation for a giant..
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.
Compelled :: Compelled (imp. & p. p.) of Compe.
Banish :: Banish (v. t.) To drive away; to compel to depart; to dispel.
Strike :: Strike (v. i.) To quit work in order to compel an increase, or prevent a reduction, of wages..
Convincingly :: Convincingly (adv.) in a convincing manner; in a manner to compel assent.
Picket :: Picket (v. t.) To torture by compelling to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.
Compellative :: Compellative (n.) The name by which a person is addressed; an appellative.
Constrain :: Constrain (v. t.) To compel; to force; to necessitate; to oblige.
Subjugation :: Subjugate (v. t.) To subdue, and bring under the yoke of power or dominion; to conquer by force, and compel to submit to the government or absolute control of another; to vanquish..
Perforce :: Perforce (v. t.) To force; to compel.
Compellably :: Compellably (adv.) By compulsion.
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