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Compelling :: Compelling (p. pr. & vb. n) of Compe.

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

Press :: Press (v.) To urge, or act upon, with force, as weight; to act upon by pushing or thrusting, in distinction from pulling; to crowd or compel by a gradual and continued exertion; to bear upon; to squeeze; to compress; as, we press the ground with the feet when we walk; we press the couch on which we repose; we press substances with the hands, fingers, or arms; we are pressed in a crowd..

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..

Drive :: Drive (v. t.) To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communicate motion to; as, to drive cattle; to drive a nail; smoke drives persons from a room..

Compellable :: Compellable (a.) Capable of being compelled or constrained.

Distrain :: Distrain (v. t.) To press heavily upon; to bear down upon with violence; hence, to constrain or compel; to bind; to distress, torment, or afflict..

Coactive :: Coactive (a.) Serving to compel or constrain; compulsory; restrictive.

Coerce :: Coerce (v. t.) To compel or enforce; as, to coerce obedience..

Compel :: Compel (v. t.) To drive or urge with force, or irresistibly; to force; to constrain; to oblige; to necessitate, either by physical or moral force..

Cogency :: Cogency (n.) The quality of being cogent; power of compelling conviction; conclusiveness; force.

Picket :: Picket (v. t.) To torture by compelling to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.

Crying :: Crying (a.) Calling for notice; compelling attention; notorious; heinous; as, a crying evil..

Conviction :: Conviction (n.) The act of convincing of error, or of compelling the admission of a truth; confutation..

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..

Dragoon :: Dragoon (v. t.) To compel submission by violent measures; to harass; to persecute.

Strike :: Strike (v. i.) To quit work in order to compel an increase, or prevent a reduction, of wages..

Cogent :: Cogent (p. a.) Compelling, in a physical sense; powerful..

Banish :: Banish (v. t.) To drive away; to compel to depart; to dispel.

Compellation :: Compellation (n.) Style of address or salutation; an appellation.

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