Definition of compel

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

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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..
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..
Bound :: Bound (p. p. & a.) Constrained or compelled; destined; certain; -- followed by the infinitive; as, he is bound to succeed; he is bound to fail..
Stick :: Stick (n.) To impose upon; to compel to pay; sometimes, to cheat..
Compellation :: Compellation (n.) Style of address or salutation; an appellation.
Coerce :: Coerce (v. t.) To compel or enforce; as, to coerce obedience..
Compulsive :: Compulsive (a.) Having power to compel; exercising or applying compulsion.
Adact :: Adact (v. t.) To compel; to drive.
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..
Quarrel :: Quarrel (v. t.) To compel by a quarrel; as, to quarrel a man out of his estate or rights..
Enforced :: Enforced (a.) Compelled; forced; not voluntary.
Compellatory :: Compellatory (a.) Serving to compel; compulsory.
Dragoon :: Dragoon (v. t.) To compel submission by violent measures; to harass; to persecute.
Cogent :: Cogent (p. a.) Having the power to compel conviction or move the will; constraining; conclusive; forcible; powerful; not easily reasisted.
Milk :: Milk (v. t.) To draw anything from, as if by milking; to compel to yield profit or advantage; to plunder..
Strike :: Strike (v. i.) To quit work in order to compel an increase, or prevent a reduction, of wages..
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.
Rustication :: Rustication (n.) The act of rusticating, or the state of being rusticated; specifically, the punishment of a student for some offense, by compelling him to leave the institution for a time..
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..
Compellably :: Compellably (adv.) By compulsion.
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