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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Compulsive :: Compulsive (a.) Having power to compel; exercising or applying compulsion.
Compellably :: Compellably (adv.) By compulsion.
Incoercible :: Incoercible (a.) Not to be coerced; incapable of being compelled or forced.
Force :: Force (n.) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit of which he has none.
Necessitate :: Necessitate (v. t.) To reduce to the necessity of; to force; to compel.
Force :: Force (n.) To do violence to; to overpower, or to compel by violence to one;s will; especially, to ravish; to violate; to commit rape upon..
Pulsive :: Pulsive (a.) Tending to compel; compulsory.
Enforce :: Enforce (v. t.) To put force upon; to force; to constrain; to compel; as, to enforce obedience to commands..
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..
Imperious :: Imperious (a.) Imperative; urgent; compelling.
Exaction :: Exaction (n.) The act of demanding with authority, and compelling to pay or yield; compulsion to give or furnish; a levying by force; a driving to compliance; as, the exaction to tribute or of obedience; hence, extortion..
Constrain :: Constrain (v. t.) To compel; to force; to necessitate; to oblige.
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..
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..
Cloud-compeller :: Cloud-compeller (n.) Cloud-gatherer; -- an epithet applied to Zeus.
Distress :: Distress (n.) To compel by pain or suffering.
Press :: Press (v.) To exercise very powerful or irresistible influence upon or over; to constrain; to force; to compel.
Enforced :: Enforced (a.) Compelled; forced; not voluntary.
Compeller :: Compeller (n.) One who compels or constrains.
Compellation :: Compellation (n.) Style of address or salutation; an appellation.
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