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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..

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

Driver :: Driver (n.) One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward..

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

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.

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..

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

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

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..

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

Incoercible :: Incoercible (a.) Not to be coerced; incapable of being compelled or forced.

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..

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

Compulsion :: Compulsion (n.) The act of compelling, or the state of being compelled; the act of driving or urging by force or by physical or moral constraint; subjection to force..

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..

Positive :: Positive (a.) Hence: Not admitting of any doubt, condition, qualification, or discretion; not dependent on circumstances or probabilities; not speculative; compelling assent or obedience; peremptory; indisputable; decisive; as, positive instructions; positive truth; positive proof..

Incoacted :: Incoacted (a.) Not compelled; unconstrained.

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

Swim :: Swim (v. t.) To cause or compel to swim; to make to float; as, to swim a horse across a river..

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

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